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Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world, adding 29 billion water bottles a year to the problem. In order to make all these bottles, manufacturers use 17 million barrels of crude oil. That’s enough oil to keep a million cars going for twelve months.

Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes, and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.

Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.

Humans, and virtually all other critters, live on a gas called oxygen

Oxygen is one of the gases found in air and every single cell inside you needs the oxygen you inhale for energy! Sure, you also need food, but your body couldn't even make use OF the food you eat if you didn't have that oxygen.