[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by troutman

Still a skeptic? Here are some facts:

- It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars.

- Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.

- In 2007 we spent $16 billion on bottled water. That’s more than we spent on iPods or movie tickets.

- Plastic bottles can take up to 1000 years before they begin to decompose once buried.

- 90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle itself

- 80% of plastic bottles are not recycled

- Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water

- Bottled water is the second most popular beverage in the North America

Another interesting fact:

-25% of these stats on bottled water say exactly the same thing