It is an accepted truth that the more food you grow yourself, the more you reduce your greenhouse gases considering that the average North American meal travels 2,400 km to get from field to plate and contains ingredients from at least 5 different countries. A 2002 Worldwatch Report found an average North American meal made with ingredients from a supermarket takes 4 to 17 times more petroleum consumption in transport than the same meal made from local ingredients.
How you grow is as important as what you grow. West County Gloves offers a green gardening glove made with a PET mesh fabric made from recycled water bottles. Each pair of West County Gloves removes one 8 oz water bottle from landfills.
Americans buy an estimated 215 billion beverage containers every year. The Think Outside the Bottle campaign estimates that meeting Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 17 million barrels of oil last year – enough fuel to operate more than 1 million American cars for one year – and generates more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of plastic water bottles end up in local landfills, oceans and rivers. Plastic water bottles can take more than 700 years to decompose in the landfill.
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