Stop Using Disposable Plastic Bottles
There’s no getting around it; people are hooked on the convenience of plastic water bottles. 20 years ago, we didn’t even know we needed them. Big Green Head wants you to nip this habit in the bud. It’s healthier, cheaper, and less waste-producing to drink from a really cool stainless steel bottle instead!
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DID YOU KNOW?
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DID YOU KNOW?
- Far out in the Pacific Ocean between California and Hawaii, there are huge islands of garbage swirling together into ever-growing "cyclones" of debris. One island of trash is twice the size of the state of Texas.
- Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour. 86% of them are thrown away instead of being recycled.
- It takes about 17.6 million barrels of oil to produce enough bottled water to meet U.S. consumer demand. That’s about the amount of oil required to fuel more than one million vehicles on U.S. roads each year.
- 2.7 million tons of plastic is used worldwide each year to produce bottled water.
Expense: It pays to kick the bottled water habit. Ounce for ounce, bottled water cost more than gasoline! The average family spends between $500-$4,000 every year on bottled water.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - REDUCE and RECYCLE only. You should never reuse or freeze plastic bottles because of the chemicals they leach.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - REDUCE and RECYCLE only. You should never reuse or freeze plastic bottles because of the chemicals they leach.