Cut Down on Plastic
Water Bottles
Keep cool with refillable
bottles
Fox Hutt refills her machine
washable glass “tea” bottles with water
In the summer, judging by
the plastic water bottles in the trash and at the recycling center, many of us
go through these, well, like water. You can save lots of money and decrease
greenhouse gas emissions by filling your own bottles.
By using local tap water (filter it if you want) and
refillable bottles, you do several good deeds. You decrease the amount
of oil we import to make the bottles and transport the bottled water. Most
important, you prevent the carbon dioxide emissions that would have been
caused by trucks transporting the bottled water. Carbon dioxide emissions are
a main cause of global warming.
Contributed by Healthy Planet Initiatives Local Citizen Group
Copyright 2007 Christine Missik