Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET drink bottle) Facts:
• Americans throw away 30 billion water bottles each year. That’s enough to circle the
  earth 150 times!
• Four out of five empty water bottles end up in landfills.

• Bottled water from France must travel 5,000 miles by ship before it reaches the US.
• By the time it gets to our mouths, 2 oz. of oil have already been used and that doesn’t
  include the process of making the plastic.

• 11% of household waste is plastic, 40% of which if plastic bottles.
• Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve enough energy to light a 60W bulb for
  up to six hours.
• Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles an hour.
• By using plastic in packaging, American product manufacturers save enough energy
  each year to power a city of 1 million homes for 3 years.
• Product packaging accounts for 1/3 of our trash.
• If every American household recycled just one out of every ten HDPE bottles they
  used, we’d keep 200 million pounds of the plastic out of landfills every year.