Blog Entry 1: Before the 30 day challenge

I am giving up using plastic disposable water bottles

I am giving them up because i can re-use other water bottles I own without having to throw away plastic.

 It impacts the environment in many ways.
1. single use bottles take over 1000 years to bio-degrade
2. U.S landfills are overflowing with around 2 million tons of discarded water bottles alone
3. It takes 1.5m barrels of oil to meet the demand of U.S water bottle manufacturing.

It will affect the companies who produce the bottle, deliver the bottle, source the water for the bottle, and sell the bottle

My goals for this challenge is to only use re-usable water bottles that I have already purchased. Also, don't use or buy single use plastic water bottles.

The challenges I see is the convenience of using throw away bottles, having to carry around a bigger bottle than a plastic bottle.

There are many ways to get the word out of what I'm doing. for one they can read this blog. Also I could just simply tell them, or if I notice that they're using a plastic water bottle, tell them that they should switch over to reusable ones.