Did you know that it can take up to 1000 years before a plastic bottle begins to decompose after it has been buried? For this reason, you may have seen an increase of recycling water bottle commercials on TV. Can you do your part to help keep plastic bottles out of landfills?

The average American recycled only an average of 23% of the plastic water bottles that they use during the 2006 year. That leaves an estimated 38 billion water bottles that were not recycled and just tossed away in landfills.

The cost of bottled water is so much more than that of filtered water you can filter at home yourself. You are paying mostly for the bottle itself the label and the lid, as opposed to the water inside. With convenience on everyone’s mind today, the amount of bottled water that Americans drink from just 30 years ago has increased over 20 fold.

It takes over one and a half million barrels of oil just to manufacture a year’s supply of bottled water. That amount of oil is enough fuel over 100,000 cars. Last year more money was spent on bottled water than mp3 players and movies.

Can you do your part to either on your amount of bottled water usage, or at least make the extra effort to make sure that your bottles do not see a landfill. Recycle plastic water bottles, and anything else plastic that you may use in your life.

Just to give you a small scenario of what impact we could make if we were just to give up plastic water bottles for one week, if everyone in New York City gave up water bottles for one week, it would save 24 million plastic bottles for making it to a landfill. Do your part, and give up plastic water bottles, or do your best to recycle plastic water bottles.