| A lot of people are now gravitating to the | | | | Drinking water and showerhead filters can be |
| purchase and use of a variety of eco friendly | | | | considered useful eco friendly stuff, because what |
| stuff in order to try and help save the | | | | these appliances do is trap any chemical, biological |
| environment. What I am going to try to do is give | | | | contaminant, or toxic heavy metal, and prevent |
| you a few ideas about how you can help to keep | | | | almost all of them from entering back into the |
| the environment clean through the use of | | | | environment. Now let's look at what else you can |
| countertop drinking water filters, showerhead | | | | do to guarantee that you leave as small a mark |
| filters, and reusable water bottles. | | | | on the planet as possible. |
| You have probably never thought about the use | | | | What you need to do to further help the |
| of these items to clean up the environment, but | | | | environment is stop purchasing water that comes |
| only as a way to ensure that your health was not | | | | in plastic containers. There are roughly 60 million |
| affected by toxins in the water supply. While | | | | bottles of prepackaged drinking water that are |
| preserving your health is the most important | | | | produced, transported, and disposed of each day |
| aspect of filtering your water, in doing so you are | | | | in the United States alone. The bottles which |
| also preventing large quantities of toxic | | | | aren't recycled end up taking up residence in |
| contaminants from returning to the environment. | | | | landfills, which are quickly becoming overrun by |
| We need to use all of the eco friendly stuff that | | | | these containers. |
| we can get our hands on, in order to keep our | | | | It is suspected that it could take up to one |
| own irresponsible actions from harming the planet. | | | | thousand years for the plastic in each of these |
| We have literally allowed tens of thousands of | | | | bottles to break down. What you need to do is |
| toxins to become a part of our groundwater | | | | boycott these containers, and instead carry your |
| system, which is something that threatens every | | | | water around in some eco friendly stuff like a |
| living thing. We have to do something to lessen | | | | stainless steel aqua-canteen, a closable glass |
| our impact on our planet. | | | | container, or a BPA free purity sports bottle. This |
| When we allow toxin filled water to flow freely | | | | is a far better option for the earth than those |
| through our tap or showerhead, what we are | | | | hazardous plastic containers are. |
| doing is allowing these contaminants to travel right | | | | You can use this portable eco friendly stuff with |
| back to the source from which they came. The | | | | your new drinking water purification system. That |
| wastewater treatment facilities that filter this | | | | way you can always have the purest water |
| water on its way back to the source are ill | | | | possible on the go, and you can ensure that your |
| equipped to remove these contaminants, and so it | | | | health and that of the planet is protected. |
| is up to us to get the job done. | | | | |