Learn more about sustainability
One aim of our project is raising sustainability awareness through courses we teach. The ultimate goal is to help our communities develop strategies through which we can locally (personally) change our lifestyles to minimize our adverse effect on the environment and resources.
One way to raise awareness is to understand the implications of the choices we make in our daily lives. Let’s take bottled water as one example.
According to Datamonitor, a market research company, bottled water now is the second most popular beverage in the U.S. Soda pop is No. 1.
Industry estimates are that about 1,500 plastic bottles of water are consumed every second in the U.S., even though about half of the bottled water consumed is sourced from municipal tap water.
As we all know, plastic is made from petroleum, a nonrenewable resource. To appreciate the amount of petroleum that is required to get a bottle of water into your hands, picture that bottle filled one-fourth full of oil. That’s the amount of petroleum required to manufacture one bottle and transport it to the consumer. According to calculations from the Pacific Institute, that amounts to 17 million barrels of oil each year being used just by the U.S. bottled water industry.
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