Ditch the water bottle

I know, I know, it might not seem like the most exciting thing ever, and it isn’t. BUT, as reusable water bottles go this one is pretty swish (and it’s durable too!)

For your information…

  • Bottled water generates up to 600 times more CO2 than tap water
  • New research shows that drinking a bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving a car for a kilometre. 
  • There’s enough oil used in the production process of water bottles in the UK to keep 17,000 cars on the road for a year. 
  • It takes 162g of oil and seven litres of water (including power plant cooling water) just to manufacture a one-litre bottle, creating over 100g of greenhouse gas emissions (10 balloons full of CO2) per empty bottle. Extrapolate this for the developed world (2.4m tonnes of plastic are used to bottle water each year) and it represents serious oil use for what is essentially a single-use object.