Having a water filter at home is an awesome way to help the environment, using less store-bought bottled water.  It has saved you money, taking advantage of the cheap municipal water that can be used for much cheaper than the cost of bottled water.  But this brings us to our next problem to be solved: How do we bring the filter with us?  Municipal water taps are almost everywhere we go, so why not take advantage of this water as well?  The answer is small enough to fit in your pocket. 

With New Wave Environmental water bottle filters, your filter is with you everywhere you go.  The filter screws into any standard sized plastic water bottle and filters out fresh water with a gentle squeeze.  This removes many harmful chemicals and compounds such as chlorine from municipal tap water, making almost any public water source a safe way to quench your thirst.  The filter in each water nozzle is good for 90 refills, saving you money and the environment from unneeded waste!

Did you know that 86% of plastic water bottles used in the United States end up either as litter or in landfills as trash?  These bottles sit unchanged in landfills, for centuries, squandering our limited resources.  It is estimated that in the United States, we use 1.5 million barrels of crude oil a year toward producing the huge demand for plastic water bottles alone!  Becoming independent of foreign crude oil is a growing trend in the United States, with the long term goal of becoming totally independent from crude.  Scientists have already figured out how to change one of our everyday foods, corn, into gasoline, reducing demand on crude oil; but the possibilities do not end there.

Corn is already being used to help lessen gas consumption in the United States.  Biofuels have been changing the way we fill up our cars and help us become more energy independent.  But the next step in using corn as an alternative to petroleum will be the corn based plastic bottle.  Corn based plastic bottles from New Wave Environmental will degrade in just 80 days in a compost heap.  This simple new technology, combined with a simple at-home water filtration system could significantly reduce our needs for petroleum based plastics!

It isn’t often that we stop and think about what happens to our waste, long after we dispose of it in the trash.  Most of our trash that is not recycled is sent to landfills in various parts of the country.  Once in a landfill, our waste remains dormant, with little moisture or oxygen.  Due to these conditions, much of this waste remains in the same condition it was when it was originally disposed.  Old landfills have been excavated to find 40 year old newspapers that could still easily be read!  Most plastic bottles take 1,000 years to fully decompose!  Because this waste does not decompose, landfills have to be monitored for decades for environmental damage after they are capped off with soil.

By disposing most of our petroleum based plastics in these landfills, we are wasting a precious limited resource.  Environmentalists around the world say that the solution to this wastefulness is by simply filtering your own municipal tap water.  New Wave Environmental water filters can save you the cost of 1,500 gallons of bottled water on just 1 filter.  By doing this, we can cut back on our dependence on crude oil to create the plastics used in bottled water.  Not only will this cut our dependence on crude oil, it will save you money every day!

Fact: If every person in New York City, for just 1 week, filtered their own water to drink, we could save 24 million plastic bottles!