In my attempt to live a green lifestyle I found an eco-friendly, reusable water bottle from Swiss company SIGG. They are great because you do not dispose of them like non-biodegradble plastic water bottles therefore eliminating unnecessary environmental waste.

There is a statistic out there that says Americans add over 30 million PET plastic water bottles to our nation’s landfills everyday! This is outrageous. Save money and our planet by investing $20 in a reusable water bottle.

The SIGG water bottles are cool because, for one thing they are stylish, but more importantly they are non-leaching like plastic bottles. The chemicals in plastic leach into your water and have been known to cause cancer.

Here are some other interesting facts from mysigg.com:

• Most disposable water bottles (e.g. – Evian, Dasani, Aquafina, etc.) are made of PET plastic. According to the American Recycling Institute, only 14% of these bottles are recycled. Most of the PET bottles end up in litter or trash where they can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade, filling our landfills and injuring wildlife.
• Even if PET bottles are sent to the recycling center, they are really being “down-cycled”, converted to a lower form of plastic, much of which goes unused.
• PET is a petroleum-based plastic. Manufacturing and transporting bottled water (especially from distant countries such as France and Fiji) unnecessarily burns fossil fuels – approximately 1.5 million barrels per year according to the NRDC.

You can find these water bottles at Whole Foods, REI or online at mysigg.com.

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