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Today we speak with Mary Lonergan, Co-founder of Back2Tap. Back2Tap aims to reduce the waste generated from the production and distribution of disposable plastic bottles. There are some startling statistics when you look into the world of plastic bottles and we will look at some of them here today.
More facts at Earth 911 Recycle ideas at All Plastic Bottles.org
5% of B2T profits go to the Central Asia Institute.
The statistics are staggering:
* About 1.2 billion people globally lack safe water to consume
* About 2.6 billion people do not have access to adequate sanitation
* Just one toilet flush in the West uses more water than most Africans have to perform an entire day’s drinking, cooking, washing and cleaning
* Women and children in water-stressed countries walk three to six miles every day just to collect water for their families. This prevents them from otherwise pursuing an education, maintaining their households or earning additional income.
* More than half of the hospital beds in the developing world are occupied by people suffering from preventable diseases caused by unsafe water and inadequate sanitation
* Dirty water poses a greater threat to human life than war or terrorism.
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Meeting the U.N. Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the percentage of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015 would cost about $4 billion a year for 10 years. That amount represents just one month’s spending on bottled mineral water in Europe & US.
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