JohnnyDrfiter22
04-28-2008, 12:24 PM
Be Green For Your $Green$
Why are Your Gas Prices so High?
There are 6000 products that are used from pertroleum, just as an every day item.
Each year, 29 billion <http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm (http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm)> plastic water bottles are produced for use in the United States, according to the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental organization in Washington, D.C. Manufacturing them requires the equivalent of 17 million barrels of crude oil, so rising oil and natural gas prices have only exacerbated the high price of virgin plastic.
Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash. In bottle production alone, the more than 70 million bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S. drain 1.5 million barrels of oil over the course of one year.
There are more than 400Billion Pounds of Water Bottles right now in the Trash, that’s just in America…..
So Next Time you go to throw away that water bottle or not think to buy recycled plastics you might as well rip up more money.
Why are Your Gas Prices so High?
There are 6000 products that are used from pertroleum, just as an every day item.
Each year, 29 billion <http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm (http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2007/Update68.htm)> plastic water bottles are produced for use in the United States, according to the Earth Policy Institute, an environmental organization in Washington, D.C. Manufacturing them requires the equivalent of 17 million barrels of crude oil, so rising oil and natural gas prices have only exacerbated the high price of virgin plastic.
Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion on over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash. In bottle production alone, the more than 70 million bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S. drain 1.5 million barrels of oil over the course of one year.
There are more than 400Billion Pounds of Water Bottles right now in the Trash, that’s just in America…..
So Next Time you go to throw away that water bottle or not think to buy recycled plastics you might as well rip up more money.