Many people use single-use bottles on a daily basis for sports, school, or just as a drink. They can be a helpful resource when rushing out of the house to get somewhere, or when you are out of reusable bottles. But now most everyone is realizing that plastic bottles harm the earth in numerous ways. However, sometimes it’s hard not to use a single-use bottle. So why not still be able to use a single-use bottle, only it’s environmentally friendly? 

Boxed drinks are one way to solve plastic pollution. The company Boxed Water Is Better makes single-use water bottles, but they are mostly made out of plant-based content and are decomposable. They are 92% renewable, 100% recyclable, have a 36% lower carbon footprint, and the water is 100% pure. ¹ Most single-use plastic bottles end up in landfills, use oil and fossil fuels, which results in air pollution. 

Bottles also are littered in the ocean and on land. These bottles hurt animals when they eat them, pollute the earth when they are made, and take about 1,000 years to decompose. ²That is around 13 lifetimes. If you buy a plastic water bottle today,  your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandchildren will be able to drink out of that same bottle, hundreds of years later. You have probably seen a plastic bottle lying around at the beach, on highways, or in your own neighborhood. If these bottles were boxed, they wouldn’t be around forever, and there wouldn’t be as many bottles rolling around. This is because boxed water takes only two months to decompose. ³ If you bought a bottle of boxed water in July, it would be gone by December. 

There are so many statistics and reasons why we should start using boxed water rather than bottled water. If large companies like Coke and Poland Spring switched from bottled water to boxed water, the air, water, and land would be so much cleaner. To help, instead of using single-use bottled water, we can use reusable water bottles or boxed water. 🍃🌳

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