Environmental Issues - Bottled Water

If everyone on the planet made a conscious choice to reduce their footprint on the environment, it would make a huge difference for future generations. Awareness begins with education, so we are pleased to provide the following environmental information about bottled water:

Bottled Water / Plastic Water Bottles

Pics USA offers an innovative way to provide consumers with an alternative to disposable plastic water bottles: Stainless steel water bottles from Pics USA are eco-friendly (reusable/recyclable), free of Bisphenol-A (BPA) and allow for the consumer to design and decorate their own bottle with photos, artwork, embroidery and more.

Pics USA's bottles are better than plastic bottles because plastic bottles require massive amounts of fossil fuels to manufacture and transport, and billions of these bottles wind up in landfills every year. And it takes over 1000 years for a plastic bottle to decompose in a landfill.

An astonishing one-fifth of the populations of Canada and the United States drink bottled water exclusively, and the United States consumes the most bottled water on the planet (33.4 billion litres per year).

In Canada, bottled water consumption was estimated at 24.4 litres per person in 1999. By 2005, that had increased to about 60 litres per person, with sales worth $652.7 million. The average person consumes 167 bottles per year, which equates to:

• 14 kg of oil
• 8 kg of greenhouse gas emissions
• 639 liters of polluted water

The mass consumption and disposal of plastic water bottles has reached critical levels. If consumers used reusable beverage containers such as the Pics Water Bottle, it would help a lot towards reducing the environmental impact of disposable bottles.