Earthlust drinking bottles {for the love of our babies!}

Why it matters >> 1.5 million barrels of oil is used every year to make disposable water bottles.

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Here's what they had to say:

The bottled water industry promotes an image of purity, but comprehensive testing by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) reveals a surprising array of chemical contaminants in every bottled water brand analyzed, including toxic byproducts of chlorination in Walmart's Sam's Choice and Giant Supermarket's Acadia brands, at levels no different than routinely found in tap water. Several Sam's Choice samples purchased in California exceeded legal limits for bottled water contaminants in that state. Cancer-causing contaminants in bottled water purchased in 5 states (North Carolina, California, Virginia, Delaware and Maryland) and the District of Columbia substantially exceeded the voluntary standards established by the bottled water industry.

• Bottled water can cost up to 10,000 times more per gallon than tap water.
• Tap water is actually held to higher standards than bottled water, and some brands of bottled water are just tap water in disguise.
• Approximately 1.5 million barrels of oil are used to make plastic water bottles, while transporting these bottles burns even more oil.
• The growth in bottled water production has increased water extraction in areas near bottling plants, leading to water shortages that affect nearby consumers and farmers.
• In addition to the millions of gallons of water used in the plastic-making process, two gallons of water are wasted in the purification process for every gallon that goes into the bottles.
• Nearly 90 percent of water bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose.