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Cartoon: Bottled water → Reusable bottle Bought once.Tossed in minutes.

Instead of

Bottled water Reusable bottle

Why switch

Healthier

Dodge the microplastics that leach from single-use plastic as it ages.

Greener

One bottle replaces about 156 throwaways every single year.

The impact

You, per year 156 plastic bottles12.6 kg CO₂
All of the world 1.26 trillion plastic bottles skipped / year

If everyone across the world switched, every year that’s:

  • 1.26 trillion plastic bottles
  • 102 billion kg CO₂

Reduce, reuse, recycle

Reduce

Fill from the tap before you leave and carry it everywhere.

Reuse

Refill it thousands of times; wash it like you would a mug.

Recycle

When a steel or glass bottle finally dies, it is fully recyclable.

Sources

  1. Qian et al. (2024), PNAS — ~240,000 nano/microplastic particles per litre of bottled water
  2. Gleick & Cooley (2009), Environmental Research Letters — energy footprint of bottled water vs tap
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