Reusable water bottles in place of disposables is the unavoidable new trend, but are we just substituting one bottle for another?

Plastic water bottles are easily the most prevalent waste material - around 40 million bottles end up as unrecycled trash per day.

The new market for reusable water bottles has arrived but the materials used to make these must-have eco-cessories are not without their own hiccups along the manufacture and supply chain.

Lydia Chambers, founder of Back 2 Tap.

The numbers are just unbelievable!  In the United States, the average American consumes 167 bottles of water each year.  So if you lined them up end to end, it would stretch from the East Coast of the United States to China and back.

Unless your local reservoir is contaminated or you’re in the midst of an environmental disaster, stop the flow of plastic water bottles with a reusable vessel and bring your wise water choice back to tap.

For the full interview with Lydia Chambers, click here.

Photo by Playamoth.