Environmental Athlete

It doesn’t make any sense to spend money on fluid sports drinks, water bottles and enhanced water when 44% of all bottled water in the United States originates from municipal tap water. Use tap water instead!

Enhanced water and sports drinks typically only provide a nominal amount of the electrolytes, vitamins and minerals required by athletes; often with high levels of carbohydrates, including high-fructose corn syrup. The increasing popularity of bottled drinking water has significant environmental and social impacts, from the energy used to produce the plastic bottles and the cost to transport bottled water to consumers.

Use tap water and add SportAktive EASY portable drink mix products directly to your sports bottle, fluid belt or bladder. Better on the environment, better for your training and at a low price per serving.

A better choice both for the world and your training:

• Consumers in the US purchase 80 million PET bottles each day!
• The entire production of bottled water in the United States requires the energy equivalent of more than 32 million barrels of oil.
• Only 20% of PET bottles are recycled! Only 4 states have PET recycling. The rest are burned, end up in landfills or are disposed in your backyard.
• In fact, tap water is much more closely regulated than bottled water.
• The energy required to produce tap water is 2,000 times less than that required to produce bottled water

(Pacific Institute, 2009)*.