Hydration Specialist
Plastic polution
Written by Kailyn Sarmiento on Jan 10, 2020
Finding eco-friendly solutions
to keeping plastic out of our oceans
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single-use plastics
PLASTIC DOES NOT DECOMPOSE.
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It is a material meant to last, not designed for disposable items. Scientists say it takes at least 1,000 years for plastics to decompose. That means every piece of plastic we've created is still on this planet in one form or another.
It's time to reduce our dependence on single-use plastics. Such as one-time use thin plastic grocery bags that fly around the city, into the ocean, choking a dolphin, and breaking into micro bits absorbing other pollutants in the sea, and threatening the rest of the creatures out there with their toxic microscopic selves for eons. Or a straw you suck a beverage from in five minutes that lasts 1000 years all the while getting lodged in turtle noses or making a reappearance in your fish dinner.
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We are highly intelligent, innovative, and also dependent on the health of our planet; I believe we can do better than disposable plastics.
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LET'S REDUCE PLASTICS TOGETHER.
Did you know
In the Northern Pacific Ocean, there are 6X more plastic debris than plankton. They are causing deaths to marine animals who mistake them for food at a rate of 1 million deaths per year.
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Over the past 50 years the world's plastic production has doubled. We have an island in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, The Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Which is mostly composed of plastic. It's the size of India, Europe, and Mexico combined.
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10% of the plastic we use yearly ends up in the ocean. That's equivalent to 700 billion plastic bottles.
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Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000 to 2,000 gallons of gasoline. One ton of plastic is around 25,000 plastic bottles.
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91% of over 8 billion metric tons of plastic made over the decades has never been recycled. It ends up in landfills and oceans, leaching into our natural environment.
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The production of plastic uses around 8% of the world's oil production.
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90% of the trash floating in our oceans is made of plastic, around 46,000 pieces per square mile.
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Plastic is made from petroleum.
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Some of the components used to make plastic-like Phthalates and Bisphenol A (BPA) are harmful to our health.
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The average person unknowingly consumes around 5 grams of plastic each week. The equivalent of a credit card's weight in microplastics. That's about 250 grams per year - more than a half-pound of plastic every 12 months.
According to the WWF 2019 study, the largest source of plastic ingestion is drinking water, with plastic found in water (groundwater, surface water, tap water and bottled water) all over the world. All samples were found to contain plastic in a study on bottled water, which used a limited sample of locations around the world. A recent study, suggests large regional variations, with twice as much fibers per 500ml observed in American or Indian water as in European or Indonesian tap water.
Another key source of plastic ingestion is shellfish, accounting for as much as 0.5 grams a week. This comes from the fact that shellfish are eaten whole, including their digestive system, after a life in plastic polluted seas.
25% of all bottled water is untreated tap water.
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Water stored in plastic bottle leeches phthalates from the plastic which disrupts the normal production of hormones.
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70% of plastic water bottles end up in our oceans.
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Tap water is more regulated than bottled water.
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Tap water contains over 2.000 toxins including bacteria, arsenic, chlorine, and antibiotics.
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Over 38 billion water bottles end up in our landfill every year, that's over 2 million tons.
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Every minute over 1 million plastic water bottles are bought around the globe.
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It requires over three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water.
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50 billion water bottles are consumed worldwide per year.
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49% of bottled water in the U.S. is just purified tap water.
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Billions of bottles of water are shipped to the U.S. from overseas.
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Water from home filtration systems cost less than 1 cent per gallon.
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Bottled water can cost 1,000 times more than that.
An in-home water filtration system is the sustainable solution. The best machines have over 69 uses replacing cleaning supplies, beauty products, and most importantly single-use plastic water bottles saving you thousands of dollars every year and contributing to healing our planet from pollution.
We used to buy bottled water by the case. There was always some in the pantry and some in the back of the car. We loved water! But we didn’t realize that by buying and drinking bottled water we were not part of the solution. With an in-home water filter, we now can feel good about not adding to the pollution through the manufacture of plastics. We now are drinking the best water while saving money.
— Rob Pohle
In-home water filtration systems and reusable BPA-free drinking bottles
are the first steps you can take towards initiating water awareness and conservation in your home and work place.
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IN-HOME WATER FILTRATION IS THE SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION.
Cost-effective, health-conscious, and eco-friendly: Home filtration systems replace plastic bottled water with filtered drinking water straight from your tap.
