City in Australia recently Banned the sale of Bottle Water.

I’m suggesting we all Ban the Purchase of Bottled water in our own homes. Commit today!

Bottled water is one of the biggest polluters ever created. Each bottle of water not only adds to landfills across the nation but each bottle takes energy to manufacture. Each bottle adds to the carbon imprint of planet earth, each bottle needs to be transported to the end user which also takes gas and results in emissions from the truck it’s delivered on.

Fact: Bottled water is not required to be anything better or more special than regular tap water. Many bottled water companies simply run their water through a simple water purifier before bottling.

Water Purifiers cost $50 and give you hundreds and thousands of bottles of water over it’s lifetime.

If you only bought 1 bottle  of bottled water per day that’s $365 in a year, 3,650 in 10 years, 14,600 over 40 years, and 29,200 over 80 years(A whole lifetime).

If you drink more than 1 bottle – you could double or triple that much money lost, and each dollar also represents 1 bottle that will still be there in 100+ years.

$29,000 down, and 29,000 bottles in a landfill with your name on them. Is that what you want your legacy to be?

It’s easy to dump bottled water – afterall before the 1980’s bottled water didn’t even exist!

Just buy a couple reusable plastic bottles – preferrably BPA free for your health safety, and a Brita Water Filter. You can get one that attaches to your faucet, or a pitcher  – either one works well. I use both when I’m wanting it cold I just put tap water in the pitcher and put it in the fridge, when I need water now I use the faucet filter.

If you’re going to do this – Leave your Name / Twitter Username or something identifiable in the Comments section. When you tell someone of your goal it makes you accountable for it. Commit today to making the world greener by just doing one thing different.

If we all create 1 new greener habit every 6 months then in 10-15 years we will see a whole new world, that we wouldn’t even recognize today. We need to take action now!

Leave your name and State your Commitment below!

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