Green Effect

The FACTS

• Americans used 50 billion plastic water bottles last year, 40 billion of them ended up in land fills.
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• Distribution of U.S. bottled water requires the equivalent of 37,800 18-
wheel trucks each week.
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• The 29 billion plastic bottles manufactured in the U.S. each year require the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of crude oil to produce.
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• Plastic can take up to 1000 years to disintegrate and make up a big deposit of the plastic toxic waste in the Pacific Ocean.
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• One twenty once bottle of water takes sixty ounces of water to produce.
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• Plastic water bottle manufacturers with all their products generate greater than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide each year.
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• 66,000,000 water bottles will go into the garbage or litter today.
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