Faucet Face is an organization that sells glass bottles and gives back
to the community. People may ask why are they selling glass bottles? On their website they show comparisons
between plastic and glass bottles. Glass bottles have a BPA free cap, are reusable
so that you save money ($334/year on average), and don’t leach chemicals. When
you are using a plastic bottle you are hurting the environment. “As a nation we throw away 2.5
million plastic bottles every hour. And the bottles that don't reach the landfill
often find their way down storm drains which lead directy to the ocean” (http://faucetface.com/pages/why-glass). Plastic bottles fill up landfills and they also
leach chemicals. At Faucet Face they have a program called 1 for 100. “Through its 1 for 100 program,
Faucet Face donates 2.5% of ALL sales of hose
water, tap is terrific and hummingbird feeder glass water bottles, PLUS, a
complete filter for each sale of 5 or more individual bottles to the clean
drinking water charity Third Millennium Awakening (TMA)” (http://faucetface.com/pages/1-for-100). With these filters that they donate, 90 to 95
percent of the impurities in the water are eliminated. “A BioSand water filter is a simple concrete container. It houses
several layers of sand which trap and eliminate sediments, pathogens and other
impurities from the water” (http://faucetface.com/pages/1-for-100). There is
much more that happens from these filters than just clean water though. On
Faucet Face’s website they have different quotes from people who have received filters
from them and they mention how now they don’t have to worry about waterborne
diseases. Before Faucet Face these people in the Than district in Maharashtra,
India would have to bathe in and drink the contaminated river water and since
they live in such a remote area it’s impractical for the government to install
plumbing into their homes. Thanks to Faucet Face they are now able to live with
something that most of us take advantage of which is clean water.
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