ENVO SOCIETY

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ARE GETTING INCREASINGLY SERIOUS

PLASTIC BOTTLES REPRESENT ONE OF THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEMS

According to Business Research Company, more than $250 billion a year spent on bottled water worldwide, and this is growing at 9% per year. At about $1 per bottle, this amounts to 250 billion plastic bottles per year.
According to WWF International’s Fresh Water Program, about 1.5 million tons of plastic are used to manufacture all those bottles. Plastic production and waste produce carbon emissions.
According to Pacific Institute, the International Bottled Water Association, and Water Footprint Network, three liters of water may be required to produce a half-liter bottle of water (that is, the amount of water used across the full supply chain, including water used to drill for oil to produce plastic).
According to the Voyage of the Odyssey, many people do not recycle plastic bottles. Only about 25% get recycled.
Unrecycled plastic bottles can take 450 years to decompose, and during that time, they will release all kinds of contaminants into soil, water, and air. Plastic bottles pollute oceans and waterways, killing animals through contamination and ingestion.

SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE…BUT CURRENT SOLUTIONS ARE NOT EFFECTIVE

TAP WATER: People generally avoid drinking tap water.
FILTERED/PURIFIED WATER: Offered in limited locations (generally for paying customers/visitors to sites)
REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES: People see benefits of these bottles, but they avoid them for lack of sufficient sources of drinkable water.

Envo Society aims to help address this problem by promoting greater use of reusable water bottles.

Envo is a trademark that symbolizes the availability of free filtered/purified water for the public.
The Envo trademark will be licensed for free to any organizations that are willing to offer free filtered/purified water to the public for the purpose of reducing the use of bottled water and plastic waste.
With growing numbers of Envo organizations and active promotion of Envo, Envo may have the potential to become synonymous with free filtered/purified water for everyone.
If Envo reaches wide public awareness, then public acceptance of and willingness to use reusable water bottles should also increase.
Therefore, the ultimate goal of Envo Society is to encourage more people to use reusable water bottles instead of buying bottled water to reduce plastic waste and save our fragile environment.