Nalgene Bottles Are An Environmentally Friendly Alternative To Bottled Water

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Nalgene Bottles Are An Environmentally Friendly Alternative To Bottled Water

Before you buy another 24-pack of bottled water, consider this statement about how many barrels of oil it takes to make plastic water bottles: It takes 1.5 million barrels a year just to make the plastic water bottles Americans use, according to the Earth Policy Institute in Washington, plus countless barrels to transport it from as far as Fiji and refrigerate it.

This appeared in the article, Water, Water Everywhere, but Guilt by the Bottleful, in The New York Times, on Aug. 13 2007, by Alex Williams.

Resisting buying bottled water may be difficult for many people. Bottled water is cold, easy to store in a refrigerator and simple to transport. When people neglect to recycle bottled water, however, the bottles become a liability rather than a luxury.

According to the Container Recycling Institute as stated on refillnotlandfill.org, 8 out of 10 plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or end up in a landfill.

There are alternatives, however, for bottled water. One such alternative are Nalgene bottles.

Polycarbonate Nalgene bottles are...

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