Boycott the Bottle -- The Water Bottle, That Is

Plastic Water Bottles

We here at Alkaline Water Plus are not only passionate about alkaline ionized water, but we are very interested in the environment and your health. This is why we strongly encourage you to boycott the plastic water bottle. Not only do they contribute to large amounts of waste planet wide, but they also pose risks to your health, along with the health of your family, friends and pets.

How Do Water Bottles Affect Your Health?

Studies have shown that chemicals called phthalates, which are known to disrupt testosterone and other hormones, can leach into bottled water over time. One study found that water that had been stored for 10 weeks in plastic contained phthalates. Although there are regulatory standards limiting phthalates in tap water, there are no legal limits for phthalates in bottled water. This is largely because the bottled water industry waged a successful campaign that opposed the FDA proposal to set a legal limit for these chemicals.

You have probably also heard that leaving your plastic water bottles in a hot car isn't good for you, either. Well, that is certainly true! Plastic water bottles, when heated up, have been shown to release BPA into the bottled water. And BPA has been shown to affect hormone levels by mimicking estrogen in the body. This can lead to infertility, weight gain, diabetes and heart disease, to name a few.

How Do Water Bottles Affect the Environment?

1500 water bottles are consumed EVERY SECOND in the US alone!

40,000,000,000 (yes, 40 BILLION) plastic water bottles end up in landfills each and every year! Yes, you read that right!

17,000,000 barrels of oil are used each year to produce the bottles for the bottled water!

These staggering statistics have a huge and irreversible impact on our planet. These plastic bottles will never biodegrade and will be here for millions of years to come.

What is the Solution?

I highly recommend storing your water in these stainless steel bottles. Glass jars work well, too.

I also strongly urge you to look into purchasing a water ionizer for your household. Not only does it filter out the contaminants in your tap water, which is why you were probably drinking bottled water in the first place, but the multitude of health benefits from drinking alkaline ionized water are imperative to your and your family's immediate and long-term health.

I hope this blog gave you a little more insight into what motivates us to do what we do here at Alkaline Water Plus! Please feel free to comment below if you have any questions or to leave your feedback.