Teen Green: Water Bottles are a Thing of the Past

Sure, water bottles are convenient, they’re tasty, and you know they are always filtered to perfection. But 80% of all those bottles end up in a landfill and the other 20% are “in the wild” where it takes up to 430 years for them to disintegrate. I suggest buying a reusable bottle and putting tap water in it. New York City tap water is delicious, and is argued to be the best in the country. Nalgene bottles have just now been discovered to have a harmful chemical called BPA, but CamelBack has BPA-free bottles that are not only useful, but colorful and pretty as well.