I happened to be in the office of the Secretary of State of Missouri on corporate business, and I took note of a placard they had posted on the wall listing the amounts of time it takes for various types of materials to decompose and be returned to nature.  There was a range of 2 years to 1000 years listed for products from paper to wood to different metals, and I don’t remember the exact times.  I found it interesting that some glass takes about 1,000,000 years to decompose, but I found it frightening that plastic bottles were listed as “indefinite.” 

I don’t know about you, but even a million years seems pretty indefinite to me, based on my rate of aging, which seems to accelerate every year.  But if plastic bottles are so much worse, maybe we should not be so casual about filling our landfills up with them.  On researching landfills and their plastic content, I discovered that the percentage of total landfill space occupied by plastic water bottles is the fasting growing segment. 

While I hate the taste of tap water, I vowed to quit buying bottled water in disposable plastic bottles.  Now, you can have water that tastes good without filling up our landfills. And it’s much less expensive than drinking bottled water.  Use a personal water filter bottle.  It has a filter build right in the cap of the bottle, and it makes regular tap water taste like bottled water.  The bottle is re-usable indefinitely, and replacement filters are readily available and last 3 months.

These water filter bottles save me over $2,000 per year for my family of 4, and nothing goes in the landfill.  I would recommend these water filter bottles to everyone, not only because they save our landfills, but because they are economical and very convenient. 

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