Between 2004 and 2009, US consumption of bottled water increased by 24 percent. Bottled water sales have more than quadrupled in the last 20 years (BMC 2010).
United States recycles about 32% of its waste today. 82 million tons of materials are recycled in the USA and recycling one ton of plastic saves 7.4 cubic yards of landfill space.
Every 27 hours Americans consume enough bottled water to circle the entire equator with plastic bottles stacked end to end. *In just a single week, those bottles would stretch more than halfway to the moon — 155,400 miles
Plastic water bottles are the fastest growing form of municipal solid waste in the USA. Each year more than 4 billion pounds of PET plastic bottles in landfills or as roadside litter. Bottled water has indirect economic costs. Disposing of plastic water bottle waste, costs US cities $70 million in landfill tipping fees each year