Why? | End Plastic Bottles

Pollutes the environment:

Only about 20% of single-use plastic bottles are recycled.
Plastic takes about 450 years to decompose and leeches harmful chemicals that pollute the environment tremendously.
Winds cause this plastic to get caught in rivers and end up in oceans all over the world. Oceans receive over 1.5 million tons of plastic every year, much is from plastic bottles.
About 100,000 marine creatures and 1 million seabirds die from plastic entanglement each year.
Without our efforts, by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the oceans!
When plastic decomposes, it forms tiny microplastics that are microscopic. Read more about microplastics in plastic water bottles here.
Plastic pollution has been found in Antarctica. Read more
Closer to home, littered plastic bottles are everywhere and make the neighborhood unseemly and cause pollution.

According to soyummy.com, Dasani water has magnesium sulfate, potassium chloride, and salt–which makes you more thirsty. SmartWater contains calcium chloride, magnesium chloride, and potassium bicarbonate while Nestle Pure Life bottled water contains calcium chloride, sodium bicarbonate, and magnesium sulfate. Read more about this.
Far more microplastics are found inside single-use plastic bottles than tap water.

According to foodandwaterwatch.org, one gallon of tap water costs a fraction of a penny, while a gallon bottled water costs from $0.89 to $9.47.

17 million barrels of oil are used to produce plastic water bottles every year.
According to mightynest.com, to make a plastic water bottle, the amount of crude oil used to produce it would fill it up one-fourth of the bottle. Read more
The energy used to package and transport plastic water bottles would be enough to power 190 thousand homes! However, tap water uses significantly less energy since it doesn't need to be packaged and shipped.