Our customers find Bottle-Free coolers to be more environmentally friendly than bottled water.
There is increasing concern about all of the plastic bottles thrown away. By one estimate, U.S. drinkers toss 60 million plastic water bottles a day.
In 2006 Americans tossed plastic water bottles into landfills worth about $1 billion (Fast Company, July 2007)
We're moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone. That's a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water. Water weighs 81/3 pounds a gallon. It's so heavy you can't fill an 18-wheeler with bottled water--you have to leave empty space. (Fast Company, July 2007)
Wasted gas and vehicle pollution is associated with delivering 5 gallon bulk bottled water.
According to environmental groups, four out of five plastic water bottles end up on landfill sites and the production process of plastic bottles as well the bottles themselves contributes to global warming.
A bottle-FREE solution is friendly to the environment. It eliminates bi-weekly deliveries and there are no plastic bottles.
Americans use 2 million barrels of oil every day to make plastic. That represents about 10% of the nation's total oil consumption. Even so, 72% of Americans don't know that plastic is made from oil and 40% believe that plastic tossed into the trash will eventually biodegrade in a landfill (it won't). The average American believes (mistakenly) that about 40% of plastic is eventually recycled. The actual figure is less than 6%. (Spirit Magazine, Southwest Airlines 2007)
