Leading By Example!

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.

Date: January 12th, 2010 | Author: Jo Henson
Posted in Uncategorized

greenHousex-wide-community Almost half of House of Representatives offices have started a green makeover that includes modest steps such as printing on double-sided paper, faxing electronically and using filtered rather than bottled water, a new report says.