Plastic Bottle Waste

Cheap plastic bottles have a limited value—the end result is that they often wind up in garbage dumps. In Tucson alone, 170,000 water bottles are going to landfill everyday. Nationally, the number is in the billions.

According to the Container Recycling Institute approximately 24 million barrels of crude oil equivalent were consumed in 2007 to replace the 2.5 million tons of PET bottles that were wasted instead of recycled.

Watch a running meter with current amount click here!

Other sites to visit regarding water and sustainable living

Sustainable Tucson
www.sustainabletucson.org

Water Planet
Leonardo Di Caprio has a short film he created on water issues called "Water Planet" which you can view at: www.leonardodicaprio.org

Ryan's Well Foundation
When Ryan heard about water shortages in Africa, he responded by collecting money for a ground well to be installed. This simple response has grown into what is now known as Ryan's Well Foundation. Ryan's Foundation has put hundreds of wells around the world, giving people access to clean water as a result of the kindness of others.
visit: www.ryanswell.ca

The Dirty Secret

Bottling companies pump up to 500 gallons per minute, out of wells that run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

The problem is when local aquifers become drained for water being bottled and sent away. Thus depleting local resources, using energy for transport and contributing to pollution in the process.

At WSS, the water we are purifying is designated for local consumption. By utilizing local resources, we are not negatively impacting the aquifer of communities outside of Tucson. Most of our customers include us as part of their daily errands—so we are not contributing the the transport issues.

In buying locally, your money contributes to our economy, strengthens the community and adds to Tucson's overall sustainability.

Go green - bottle locally, reuse your bottle, shop at Water Street Stations.

Water Healthy Planet

REDUCE, RECYCLE & REUSE

Bottle Locally — ReUse Your Bottle

— Shop Water Street Stations

Just by getting your water at Water Street Stations you can have a positive impact environmentally.

reduce the transport of bottled water. Fuel to transport contributes to global warming—in the U.S. alone, 1 billion bottles of water are moved weekly by ships, trains, and trucks.

Buying purified drinking water produced locally, reduces the amount of green house gases produced with long term fuel transport.

recycled plastic has created a thriving new industry of everything from polar fleece to durable white picket fences. It's great when waste can be turned into something beneficial. Even better is when we can avoid creating unecessary waste by simply re-using.

reUse your water bottle. A good quality drinking bottle is a pleasure to use and keeps water tasting good. WSS encourage's the use of re-usable polycarbonate bottles.