² Last year Americans spent nearly $11 billion over 8 billion gallons of bottled water, and then tossed over 22 billion empty plastic bottles in the trash. In bottle production alone, the more than 70 billion bottles of water consumed each day in the U.S drain 1.5 million barrels of oil over the course of one year. Source: National Geographic- Green Guide

³ Sustainable technologies are technologies which use less energy, fewer limited resources, do not deplete natural resources, do not directly or indirectly pollute the environment, & can be reused or recycled at the end of their useful life.