Matthew Stafford Takes His Recycling Seriously (Video)

Matthew Stafford, the quarterback of the Detroit Lions, is serious about getting people around the team facility to stop throwing away plastic water bottles.

Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford sent a message of Earth-friendliness this week when he pranked folks around the team’s facility in Allen Park, Mich., with a very special trash can.

Gotta love the auto-eject feature. I used to have a CD player in an old car of mine that did that, with far less humorous results.

The only thing missing from this projectile can was one of these:

That would have been perfect.

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The problem of plastic water bottles not being properly recycled is not new. The California Department of Conservation reported in 2003 that more than 1 billion water bottles per year were being placed in the trash rather than the recycling bin.

That’s not nationally—that was just in the state of California.

That projects out to 3 million bottles thrown in the trash daily.

Then there’s the question about the impact of bottled water.

According to the Pacific Institute, it took the equivalent of 17 million barrels of oil to produce the plastic bottles for bottled water consumption in the U.S. in 2006 and the process of bottling water produced more than 2.5 million tons of toxic carbon dioxide.

Throw in the fact that it takes three liters of water to produce one liter of bottled water and, well, you might want to consider some sort of a safe, reusable container to tote your water around in.

That is if you’re just too cool to drink from the faucet.

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