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One water bottle, lots of reasons to use it.

Fossil fuels are used in the packaging of bottled water. The most commonly used plastic for making water bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET #1), is made from crude oil. Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 cars for a year, according to the Earth Policy Institute.

Other experts note that the plastic materials used are generally recyclable, but since there is a very low recycling rate for the bottles, billions still wind up in landfills.