Misuse of Landfills
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!