As a New Yorker and TapIt reader, you're probably doing a lot of things right when it comes to being less wasteful--taking public transportation, recycling regularly and refilling your reusable bottle water at TapIt locations rather than sipping bottled water and tossing the bottle. Nalgene, recently set out to find America's Least Wasteful Cities. They surveyed the 25 biggest US cities and found that New York is second only to San Francisco when it comes to being the least wasteful.
Before you pat yourself on the back for a job well done, take the test and find out how you measure up. It'll quiz you about your eco habits like toting reusable shopping bags, reusing aluminum foil, taking short showers, composting, buying local and organic foods and buying second-hand items. Just taking the test should remind you of a few extra things you can do to be less wasteful--unless of course you get a perfect score.
The study was part of Nalgene's FilterForGood campaign, a partnership with Brita water filters to encourage less wasteful behavior: Specifically by choosing to filter water at home and use a reusable bottle instead. Visit the site to pledge to reduce bottled water waste. According to the partner site, Refill not Landfill, if everyone in New York City used a reusable water bottle for one week, 24 million bottles could be saved!
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