Go Green Save Money-Watter Bottle Litter and Savings

You can save $500 a year by breaking the buying a water a day habit.

Run 100,000 cars a year on oil saved from producing packaged bottles of water.

Buying coffee and tea in a disposable cup is not adding wealth to your pocket nor is it cutting the earth any stress.

Go Green Save Money- Make use of that coffee maker you bought and start bringing your own coffee to work

Every year Americans drink more than 100 billion cups of coffee. There are 14.5 billion that are served in disposable paper cups, enough to wrap and Earth 55 times if placed end to end!

There is a plastic lining made from petrochemicals that would produce enough heat for 8,300 homes a year.

In 2007, Charles Fishman noted in Fast Company magazine that we spend $15 billion on bottled water in the year 2006. Fishman also points out that transporting this water requires moving 1 billion bottles of water around per week in ships, trains and trucks across the United States.

90% of the time, the plastic water bottles are just thrown away and filling up landfills and waterways. This is an example of wasting money and hurting the planet.

Aquafina which is just purified tap water, cost more than 2500 times than when it comes out of your faucet. To drink the recommended amounts of water (8-10 glasses a day) you would spend about $2500 a year on Aquafina. How much would it cost if you invested in a filter and used your tap water? Simply a couple dollars and the filter cost, changing filters quarterly would cost up to around $60 and the cost for water? One dollar.

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