SEPTEMBER 2021
If you only do one thing for the environment this year, switch to a reusable water bottle.
Plastic water bottles are unfriendly to the environment. In the U.S. alone, 50 billion plastic bottles of water were used last year. Only nine percent were recycled. That means tens of billions of plastic bottles were thrown into landfills, or worse, discarded along roadways or into our rivers and oceans. Plastic bottles are wasteful in more ways than one. It takes over 17 million barrels of oil to create the number of bottles we use, and the bottles themselves are made of PET, a resin made from petroleum and natural gas. Then it takes a mindboggling amount of oil to distribute the bottles throughout the country. If those facts don’t upset you, consider this: In a time when nearly half the country is in a crippling drought, every single one-liter plastic water bottle requires two liters of water just to make it—meaning a one-liter water bottle actually represents three liters of water consumption.
Technology is important at Tiger, which, for about a hundred years, has been developing the technology that we’ll use for the next hundred years. Its advanced vacuum insulation tech has already been used to safely transport delicate samples from the International Space Station back to Earth. It’s also used to keep your hot beverages hot and your cold beverages cold.
Best of all, when you switch to a Tiger Bottle, you’re supporting Tiger’s efforts to vastly reduce our dependence on plastic water bottles. Plastic bottles take an estimated 700 years to disintegrate, and bottling water and then transporting it via truck, plane, or train is the least efficient, most environmentally costly way to distribute water ever known. Tiger Bottles are reusable, in addition to being safe, beautiful, and functional. You can even customize your bottle online.
The Four Pledges and How One Reusable Bottle Company Is Using Tech to Help Solve One of the World’s Largest Environmental Concerns
Through its unique Good Neighbor Initiative, the Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Students (PCS) is offering adult learners in nearby neighborhoods an automatic 30% reduction in undergraduate tuition fees.”
Besides, using a reusable bottle like Tiger’s is a commitment not just to the health of the environment, but to your own. Drinking water is crucial to a healthier lifestyle. Having your Tiger Bottle with you is a convenient way to make sure you’re drinking enough water. The entire Tiger process makes you feel good about yourself and about the planet.
Preserving our planet doesn’t stop here. Tiger recognizes the worldwide need for accessible clean drinking to truly sever our dependence on plastic. That’s why Tiger donates a portion of the funds from the profit of the D2C bottle to WaterAid, an international nonprofit dedicated to preserving clean water. When you buy Tiger, you’re helping other, less fortunate people access clean drinking water. The proceeds add up. This July, Tiger proudly donated ¥1,000,000 ($9,058.63) to WaterAid Japan.
Tiger Bottles are vacuum bottles for our future. Join Tiger and the millions of people around the world who are saying no to plastic bottles. Get your own Tiger Bottle delivered right to your door. Start customizing today at TigerBottles.com. The US launch is planned for October 2021 (until now you can ship the bottle from Japan to the US).
Tiger has publicly made what it calls “the four pledges,” which pertain to human rights, pollution prevention, health protection, and sustainability. Every single one of Tiger’s customized stainless steel vacuum bottles—all eight million a year of them—are produced in Tiger’s three factories using materials that are free from conflict. No materials used in Tiger Bottles have been mined to support military conflicts. Neither will Tiger do business with companies that use child labor or buy raw materials that can be linked with human suffering. Making the bottles entirely in-house without outsourcing guarantees the health and safety of each bottle. Using conflict-free materials guarantees that when you buy Tiger Bottle, you can do so guilt-free.
Within the striking aesthetics of the bottles—which come in a variety of rich colors—is further evidence of Tiger’s commitment to the health of its customers and the environment. Through careful research, Tiger has discovered polishing techniques that produce a flawless, eye-grabbing finish. This is important: Most companies coat their bottles with a chemical called fluorine, which is known to be hazardous to the environment. Tiger Bottles do not use fluorine because its superior technology makes fluorine unnecessary.
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We must reduce our single-use bottle consumption. Switching to a reusable bottle is the key. Switching is no small thing. It’s akin to rewriting the history of our planet one person at a time—especially if you switch to a bottle customized just for you, like Tiger Bottles, instead of one that’s outsourced for mass-production. Tiger is the reusable bottle company that cares as much about the environment as you do, and its stainless-steel vacuum bottles are made using superior technology that backs up its commitment to sustainable living for all.