Take Back the Tap
Every time you refill a Klean Kanteen instead of buying bottled water packaged in plastic, you’re making a positive choice for your own health and the health of the planet.
While the primary marketing claim of the bottled water industry is that bottled water is cleaner and more pure than tap water, a study of bottled water quality released in October 2008 by the Environmental Working Group found several contaminants, including the pain reliever acetaminophen, bacteria, caffeine, and fertilizer residue.
Unlike bottled water, tap water must meet strict state and federal standards under the Clean Water Act. That means that the water from your tap is often cleaner and better tasting than bottled water, some of which is simply repackaged tap water anyway!
On the environmental front, bottled water is a drain on our global energy resources, a major source of pollution, and one of the biggest contributing factors to plastic litter around the world. Producing plastic bottles uses energy and emits toxic chemicals. Transporting the bottled water across hundreds or thousands of miles releases carbon dioxide into the air, complicating efforts to combat global climate change. And in the end, empty bottles are piling up in landfills and contributing to plastic pollution in our oceans.
Take Back the Tap is a tremendously important campaign of the Washington, D.C.-based organization, Food and Water Watch. Staff involved with Take Back the Tap are working to change the way Americans view tap water, and to encourage people to use refillable bottles and tap water instead of single-use, bottled water. We have been enthusiastic in our efforts to promote Take Back the Tap goals with a co-branded Klean Kanteen. We also partnered with the Take Back the Tap program to make the September 2008 reopening of the California Academy of Sciences a bottled water-free event.
So, fill up your Kanteen with good, clean tap water and drink to your health!
Just the Facts!
Take Back the Tap Homepage: www.takebackthetap.org
- Plastic bottle production in the United States annually requires about 17.6 million barrels of oil.
- Worldwide bottling of water uses about 2.7 million tons of plastic each year.
- About 86 percent of empty plastic water bottles in the United States land in the garbage instead of being recycled. That amounts to about two million tons of PET plastic bottles piling up in U.S. landfills each year.
- Many plastic bottles of all types and sizes will be incinerated, which releases toxic byproducts such as chlorine gas and ash laden with heavy metals.
- Manufacturing the 28.6 billion PET water bottles in the United States takes the equivalent of 17.6 million barrels of oil.
One Planet. One You!
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