CAUTION: Project Earth H2O Bottles Contain Awareness!
Why are stainless steel water bottles so popular? What makes them good for our environment as well as our economy? Are stainless steel water bottles better than aluminum water bottles? These are good questions and ones we are asked every day. Let’s address them one by one.
1. Are there differences between the many stainless steel water bottles available today?
Over the last 2 years the stainless steel water bottle market has become fairly saturated. There are not many places one can go where you won't see a variety of these colorful bottles for sale. At first glance most stainless steel water bottles are similar in appearance. However, in many cases there are a few not-so-obvious differences that are important to consumers looking for a safe alternative to bottled water. For one, what is the grade of stainless steel used in the construction of the bottle? It is important for consumers to always use a high-grade, 18/8, 304 stainless steel water bottle. What do all of these numbers mean? The 304 refers to the grade of stainless steel – 304 is FDA approved, food-grade stainless steel and very important when using as a drinking or food container. Many inexpensive stainless steel water bottles flooding the shelves today are 201 grade stainless steel. Additionally, many of these stainless steel bottles lack the density required to make them durable enough for long-term use. They are easily crushed with a squeeze from one’s own hand thus making them more likely to damage or even crack if dropped. The 18/8 refers to the Chromium to Nickel content. Without getting overly technical, in short, this means your stainless steel water bottle is safe to hold more beverage options other than water, such as, juices, smoothies, sports drinks etc. Although 18/8 stainless steel water bottles are safe for carbonated drinks it is not recommend due to pressure build up. We also do not recommend hot beverages due to the fact that stainless steel water bottles can become both very cold and very hot. As with any beverage container proper cleaning of your bottle and cap is always important for continued usage.
2. Why are stainless steel water bottles good for our environment?
From beginning to completion, the production and transportation of bottled water consumes between 1100 and 2000 times more energy than tap water. In 2007, over 200 billion liters of bottled water were sold worldwide. That amount has grown 70% since 2001, and bottled water has now surpassed milk and beer in sales. Bottled water is the world’s second most popular bottled beverage, second only to the vast number of colas available on the market today. Everyday single day close to 80 million bottled waters are sold in the U.S. alone. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 of these bottles are used a single time and thrown into the trash. Forty billion empty bottles end up in U.S. landfills every year and these petroleum-based plastic bottles are leaching toxins into our earth’s soil and into our fresh waterways. Most people do not consider the massive amount of plastic required to quench the human demand for bottled water. The plastic used to bottle water is a petroleum-based (oil-based) plastic called Polyethylene Terephthalate, easily identified by the recycling code (PET#1). This plastic is designed and safe to be used only once – bottled water bottles are not safe to be reused. If reused, bacteria will begin to build up inside of the bottle and the plastic will begin to deteriorate causing toxins to leach from the bottle into the consumer’s water. Stainless Steel Water Bottles do not leach.
Every day 100’s of millions of petroleum-based bottles are produced and transported around the planet in order to provide consumers with a single water drinking experience. Energy required for the transportation of bottled water from point of origin to supermarket shelves around the globe alone is difficult to determine. While some bottles of water travel short distances, others are imported from country's that require a greater distance for the water to travel, which increases it’s energy footprint. However, U.S. bottled-water consumption in 2007 required an energy input equivalent to 32 million to 54 million barrels of oil without even taking transportation in consideration. The global demand for bottled water is three times that amount. To put that energy uses into perspective just imagine each bottle one-quarter full of oil. To also put that amount into perspective, that is more than enough fuel to power every vehicle in Los Angeles for an entire year. Stainless steel water bottles are safe for reuse, safe for a variety of beverages and will help eliminate the demand, production, and transportation of plastic products.
3. Why are stainless steel water bottles good for our economy as well as our personal economics?
Bottled water cost more than gasoline! Almost 50% of all bottled water is nothing more than regular tap water. This bottled water is gathered from the same water source our tap water is gathered and is run through a filtration system similar to those available in most homes across America. The average American family spends anywhere from $300 to $3000 every year on bottled water…water that for all practical purposes is free to them in their homes. Rather than buying bottled water, use stainless steel water bottles – it will save your family a great deal of money every year.
4. What is better Stainless Steel Water Bottles or Aluminum Water Bottles?
Great question – Here are a few important differences:
• Most importantly – Safety! Stainless steel is a neutral metal and does not leach – that is why silverware and cookware is made of stainless steel. Aluminum requires an inner lining to prevent the metal from leaching.
• Studies indicated that the plastic inner lining in Aluminum bottles contains Bisphenol A (BPA) a known precursor to several types of cancer – including breast cancer, reduced testosterone levels in men and attention deficit disorders in children.
• Cost -Stainless steel water bottles are less expensive than aluminum.
• Weight and durability – aluminum is lighter, but stainless steel is more durable.
• High-grade 18/8, 304 stainless steel water bottles are safe for acidic beverages – to our knowledge Aluminum is not.
• If you are drinking ionized water – aluminum will maintain your waters ionization where stainless steel water bottles will not.
Project Earth H2O stainless steel water bottles are high-grade, 18/8, 304 stainless steel. $2.00 of every Project Earth H2O stainless steel bottle is donated to non-profit environmental charities dedicated to preserving our planet and breast cancer research. Together we are making a difference!
CAUTION: Project Earth H2O Bottles Contain Awareness!
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Project Earth H2O Partners with Nature & Culture International
Buy a bottle, help save a tropical forest. Pennsylvania-based Project Earth H2o has added Nature & Culture International to the list of organizations it has chosen to help. The company has announced it will donate two dollars from every Ocean, Air & Earth bottle it sells to NCI.
NCI, which is based in Delmar, California, works to conserve some of the world’s most diverse, yet highly threatened, ecosystems and cultures. Along with being a pioneer in teaching tens of thousands of children the importance of sustainable living, the organization has been reaching beyond North America’s borders since 1997 to help protect millions of acres of tropical forests.
“These forests are the life support systems of the world in many ways, yet they are disappearing at an unprecedented rate,” Nature & Culture International’s Mike McColm says. “A number of medicines are derived from plants found in rainforests, one of which is used to treat childhood leukemia. Several flavors we all enjoy come from rainforests, including; chocolate, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. Sadly, rain-forest destruction has been measured to be responsible for about 20 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. As you can see, there are a number of important reasons for us, as Americans, to want to help protect these valuable areas.”
Project Earth H2o founder Brian Denton believes in NCI’s cause. Denton’s company created a stainless steel, reusable water bottle for two primary reasons. The first goal is to supply people with a safe, healthy alternative to the billions of single-use bottled water being used today. A side from clogging the nation’s landfills and polluting the oceans, toxins from these petroleum-based water bottles are re-leasing harmful toxins into our soil and our waterways each year. The second goal is to help support non-profit organizations that are determined to make a difference.*
“From the very beginning, our vision has been to make a positive impact on environmental and economic issues by simply by providing high-quality products to our customers, and to do something constructive with the profits. In NCI’s case, small sums of money have dramatic impacts. A dollar to you and me represents 10 dollars to NCI,” Denton says. “We kicked off our partnership with a donation that has already saved four acres of endangered forests. This area will absorb more than 72 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year. That’s the equivalent of 13.9 cars. So when you buy a Project Earth H2o bottle, you are really making a difference.”
For more information, please visit www.projectearthh2o.com. To interview Brian Denton, please email tiffany@projectearthh2o.com, or call (717) 676-8327.
*Project Earth H2o also donates $2 from every “Get Pink” bottle it sells to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
NCI, which is based in Delmar, California, works to conserve some of the world’s most diverse, yet highly threatened, ecosystems and cultures. Along with being a pioneer in teaching tens of thousands of children the importance of sustainable living, the organization has been reaching beyond North America’s borders since 1997 to help protect millions of acres of tropical forests.
“These forests are the life support systems of the world in many ways, yet they are disappearing at an unprecedented rate,” Nature & Culture International’s Mike McColm says. “A number of medicines are derived from plants found in rainforests, one of which is used to treat childhood leukemia. Several flavors we all enjoy come from rainforests, including; chocolate, vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. Sadly, rain-forest destruction has been measured to be responsible for about 20 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. As you can see, there are a number of important reasons for us, as Americans, to want to help protect these valuable areas.”
Project Earth H2o founder Brian Denton believes in NCI’s cause. Denton’s company created a stainless steel, reusable water bottle for two primary reasons. The first goal is to supply people with a safe, healthy alternative to the billions of single-use bottled water being used today. A side from clogging the nation’s landfills and polluting the oceans, toxins from these petroleum-based water bottles are re-leasing harmful toxins into our soil and our waterways each year. The second goal is to help support non-profit organizations that are determined to make a difference.*
“From the very beginning, our vision has been to make a positive impact on environmental and economic issues by simply by providing high-quality products to our customers, and to do something constructive with the profits. In NCI’s case, small sums of money have dramatic impacts. A dollar to you and me represents 10 dollars to NCI,” Denton says. “We kicked off our partnership with a donation that has already saved four acres of endangered forests. This area will absorb more than 72 metric tons of CO2 emissions a year. That’s the equivalent of 13.9 cars. So when you buy a Project Earth H2o bottle, you are really making a difference.”
For more information, please visit www.projectearthh2o.com. To interview Brian Denton, please email tiffany@projectearthh2o.com, or call (717) 676-8327.
*Project Earth H2o also donates $2 from every “Get Pink” bottle it sells to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Project Earth H2o Names New Vice President of Public Relations. Former Journalist Chosen to Lead Company’s Media Relations and Communications Projects
Feb 09, 2010 – CARLISLE, Pa. – Pennsylvania-based Project Earth H2o has named its new Vice President of Public Relations. Tiffany Morrin will now spearhead the company’s media relations efforts.
Morrin is a long time, award winning journalist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Oregon University, and has worked in television newsrooms across the country for the past 15 years. Prior to her experience in broadcasting, Morrin worked in the newspaper industry. She currently owns and manages a public relations business, The Write Place PR.
“I met Project Earth H2o’s founder, Brian Denton, about a year and a half ago while working at a local TV station,” Morrin says. “At the time, I had an ongoing news segment where I invited local inventors and entrepreneurs to come into the studio and talk about their products and companies. When I received information about Brian’s eco-friendly water bottle, I thought the idea of a man from a small, central Pennsylvania town – trying to make a global difference – was fantastic.”
Project Earth H2o created a stainless steel, reusable water bottle. Denton founded the company in order to provide a safe and sustainable product that will have a positive impact on environmental and economic issues, and do something positive and constructive with the profits. All are causes in which Morrin strongly believes.
For the past year, Morrin has worked closely with a handful of startup companies, like Project Earth H2o, and has successfully helped to propel them into the mainstream media. Many of her PR partners have been featured in major newspapers and magazines across the country. They have also appeared on some of the nation’s top radio talk shows and television programs, including; The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and E! Entertainment’s “Talk Soup.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Tiffany to the Project Earth H2o family,” Denton says. “Her experience, savvy creative nature, and proven ability to effectively execute the ‘art and science’ make her the ideal choice to serve as our new Vice President of Public Relations.”
“Project Earth H2o has all of the ingredients of success; a founder who wants to make a difference in the world, great supporters and believers such as myself, and a fantastic product,” Morrin says. “We are already working on a few initiatives to put the company on the map and results are starting to appear. I can’t wait to see what happens down the road.”
“2010 is going to be an exciting and challenging year for our company, and we look forward to Tiffany playing a major role in our success,” Denton says.
You can find more information about Project Earth H2o at Project Earth H2o Website
Morrin is a long time, award winning journalist. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Oregon University, and has worked in television newsrooms across the country for the past 15 years. Prior to her experience in broadcasting, Morrin worked in the newspaper industry. She currently owns and manages a public relations business, The Write Place PR.
“I met Project Earth H2o’s founder, Brian Denton, about a year and a half ago while working at a local TV station,” Morrin says. “At the time, I had an ongoing news segment where I invited local inventors and entrepreneurs to come into the studio and talk about their products and companies. When I received information about Brian’s eco-friendly water bottle, I thought the idea of a man from a small, central Pennsylvania town – trying to make a global difference – was fantastic.”
Project Earth H2o created a stainless steel, reusable water bottle. Denton founded the company in order to provide a safe and sustainable product that will have a positive impact on environmental and economic issues, and do something positive and constructive with the profits. All are causes in which Morrin strongly believes.
For the past year, Morrin has worked closely with a handful of startup companies, like Project Earth H2o, and has successfully helped to propel them into the mainstream media. Many of her PR partners have been featured in major newspapers and magazines across the country. They have also appeared on some of the nation’s top radio talk shows and television programs, including; The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and E! Entertainment’s “Talk Soup.”
“We are thrilled to welcome Tiffany to the Project Earth H2o family,” Denton says. “Her experience, savvy creative nature, and proven ability to effectively execute the ‘art and science’ make her the ideal choice to serve as our new Vice President of Public Relations.”
“Project Earth H2o has all of the ingredients of success; a founder who wants to make a difference in the world, great supporters and believers such as myself, and a fantastic product,” Morrin says. “We are already working on a few initiatives to put the company on the map and results are starting to appear. I can’t wait to see what happens down the road.”
“2010 is going to be an exciting and challenging year for our company, and we look forward to Tiffany playing a major role in our success,” Denton says.
You can find more information about Project Earth H2o at Project Earth H2o Website
Monday, January 18, 2010
Project Earth H2o Announces Portion of Sales will go to Direct Relief International
Project Earth H2o is joining the financial efforts to help Haitian survivors recover from this week’s devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake. The Carlisle-based company has announced it will donate $3 of every bottle it sells to Direct Relief International. The donation period will end on February 28, 2010.
Direct Relief International provides medicine, supplies and equipment to people affected by disasters here at home and throughout the world. The organization was established in 1948, and is not affiliated with any political group, religious belief or ethnic identity. For the past decade, Direct Relief International has been one of the nation’s top ranking non-profit organizations when it comes to efficiency, spending and accountability. Nearly 100 percent of all contributions go directly towards aid and relief program efforts.
Project Earth H2o was founded with the goal of helping to support non-profit organizations that are dedicated to making a difference. The company, which created a reusable, stainless steel water bottle, already donates $2 of every bottle sale to either an environmental charity, or to breast cancer research.
“Project Earth H2o is a company of action! Our customers are people of action and neither of us sit well on the sidelines, especially when so many lives are being affected,” Project Earth H2o Founder and CEO Brian Denton says. “This is a tragic situation. People are suffering and they need our help. We may not be able to help everyone with our donations, but our hope is to help as many as possible. Every contribution, regardless of the amount, will help save lives. Direct Response International will make sure our donations go as far as humanely possible.”
According to Direct Relief International, it is in the process of sending more than $2 million in medicine and medical supplies to Haiti. The emergency airlift will depart on Friday.
Direct Relief International provides medicine, supplies and equipment to people affected by disasters here at home and throughout the world. The organization was established in 1948, and is not affiliated with any political group, religious belief or ethnic identity. For the past decade, Direct Relief International has been one of the nation’s top ranking non-profit organizations when it comes to efficiency, spending and accountability. Nearly 100 percent of all contributions go directly towards aid and relief program efforts.
Project Earth H2o was founded with the goal of helping to support non-profit organizations that are dedicated to making a difference. The company, which created a reusable, stainless steel water bottle, already donates $2 of every bottle sale to either an environmental charity, or to breast cancer research.
“Project Earth H2o is a company of action! Our customers are people of action and neither of us sit well on the sidelines, especially when so many lives are being affected,” Project Earth H2o Founder and CEO Brian Denton says. “This is a tragic situation. People are suffering and they need our help. We may not be able to help everyone with our donations, but our hope is to help as many as possible. Every contribution, regardless of the amount, will help save lives. Direct Response International will make sure our donations go as far as humanely possible.”
According to Direct Relief International, it is in the process of sending more than $2 million in medicine and medical supplies to Haiti. The emergency airlift will depart on Friday.
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