Waste

I recently ran across this little product and, somehow, it's bothered me beyond all reason. It's an ice cube tray for making ice for water bottles. Now, I realize that many real sports people use reusable bottles. However, most everyone else buys bottled water, drinks it, and throws the bottle away. So, to my mind, we have materials being wasted to produce an accessory for a product that's designed to go into landfills!

A few plastic recycling facts from www.earth911.org:

• In 2006, Americans drank about 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 23 percent.
• That leaves 38 billion water bottles in landfills.
• According to the Beverage Marketing Corp, the average American consumed 1.6 gallons of bottled water in 1976. In 2006 that number jumped to 28.3 gallons.
• It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars.
• Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.
• Plastic bottles take 700 years before they begin to decompose in a landfill.

I'm sticking to Dallas tap!