Plus making the bottles is a resource drain, making the bottles uses 1.5 million barrels of oil each year, which is enough to fuel 100,000 cars for a year, the Earth Policy Institute reports. According to a project called “The Water Project”, “Bottles used to package water take over 1,000 years to bio-degrade and if incinerated, they produce toxic fumes. It is estimated that over 80% of all single-use water bottles used in the U.S. simply become "litter." According to Sharon Perkins, an author of numerous health books, “Landfills are filled with water bottles. Although plastic waters are recyclable, as many as 86 percent of the discarded bottles end up in the trash rather than the recycling bin, according to the Container Recycling Institute.” According to “The Water Project”, “U.S. landfills are overflowing with 2 million tons of discarded water bottles alone.” Bottled water does have a few benefits, but all of those bottles are piling up in landfills and were wasting more and more resources. Not only does bottled water wastes resources, but it’s also more expensive than tap