2009 July | Ban the Bottle

The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.
It takes 17 million barrels of oil per year to make all the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. alone. That's enough oil to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year.
In 2007, Americans consumed over 50 billion single serve bottles of water; between 30 and 40 million single serve bottles went into landfills each year.
Antimony, which is found in PET plastic bottles, in small doses can cause dizziness and depression; in larger doses it can cause nausea, vomiting and death.

Archive for July, 2009

10 Projects You Can Build With Old Plastic Bottles

Date: July 1st, 2009 | Author: Tomás Bosque
Posted in Articles |

My previous post offered a few ideas about what to do with old plastic bottles you may have at your workplace or home. Crafty Reuse has gone a step further, giving us “Ten Projects for Plastic Bottles”. Here’s one of my favorites:

Re-Nest’s Trend Watch highlights plastic bottle lighting ideas. There are a few that would be easy to do yourself. You can also try drilling small holes into the caps of small water or juice bottles and stringing them on Christmas lights. You can decorate the bottles with paint and sparkly things for some extra pizzazz!