It takes 1/4 of a bottle of oil to produce a single water bottle.

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Some of single use water bottles' most damaging effects occur before they actually exist - while they are still being made. They require an enormous amount of resources to product, and their byproducts are harmful for mother earth. Plastic bottles are made from a petroleum product known as a polyethylene terephthalate (PET), and they require terrifying amounts of fossil fuels to both make and transport them, including oil. 

The amount of oil that is required to make one plastic bottle is as much as 25% of a plastic bottle filled with it. The cost of this oil is 90% of the total cost of the production of a water bottle. To provide the world's supply of bottled water 17 million barrels with oil are required. With this amount of oil we can fuel 1.3 million cars for a year or provide 190,000 homes with power. By burning this amount of oil, 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted...

How easy is it to contribute to a cleaner planet? Very easy. Just stop buying plastic water bottles.



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