The other day I was at a seminar and I noticed that there were 3 cans; one for trash, one for plastic and cans and one for paper.  I was putting some paper into the proper can and the person next to me said something about being green and recycling and I noticed he had a bottle of water in his hand. So on the way back to my seat, I grabbed a bottle of water and looked over the label. The water had been bottled in the state of Georgia and shipped to some distributor and it eventually landed on the refreshment table here in Denver. So that started me thinking.   That water had to be shipped about 1,400 miles.  So how green is that?  This is a good example of how simple and yet how complex Green can be.  Recycling is a good green practice. But the person responsible for buying the water probably never thought of the emissions created by shipping the water from Georgia to Denver. So that leads to another question. Do we really need to drink water bottled in a plastic container? Is the water from our faucets not as good?  Should we filter our water?  Anyone want to guess how many plastic bottles for water are used every year?

Well here is one statistic, More than 2.4 billion pounds of plastic bottles were recycled in 2008. Although the amount of plastic bottles recycled in the U.S. has grown every year since 1990, the actual recycling rate remains steady at around 27 percent.  This is according to earth911.com  That means 73% of the plastic bottles are not being recycled. We are going to talk more about these issues soon.  For now visit www.earth911.com for more information.