User:Mcarrieri

 Monday 29 July UTC

Mike Carrieri is a businessman, product development consultant, IT technician, musician, and artist. He is the CEO of Gaia's Tribute, an environmental products company, started in 2007, to help alievate the human causes and effects of global warming.

Personal life
Born in Redwood City, CA and raised in Sunnyvale, CA he has been studying different aspects of the natural world. He is a new registered Wikipedia user as of 07/10/2007.

Business ventures
In the beginning of 2007, Mr. Carrieri began various research projects and businesses that could be launched. The first product is Gaia's Tribute, an

environmental idea to keep water bottles out of landfills. Licensing is available upon request.

Trivia
Making bottles to meet Americans’ demand for bottled water requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel some 100,000 U.S. cars for a year. Worldwide, some 2.7 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water each year. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86 percent of plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or litter. Incinerating used bottles produces toxic byproducts such as chlorine gas and ash containing heavy metals. Buried water bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade.

"Ultra Cool Reusable Water Bottle", by Colin Beavan, No Impact Man, July 2007, from "Pouring Resources Down the Drain", Earth Policy Institute, February 2, 2006-1

Just supplying Americans with plastic water bottles for one year consumes more than 47 million gallons of oil, enough to take 100,000 cars off the road and 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, according to the Container Recycling Institute.

"The real cost of bottled water", SF Environment, 02/18/2007, by Jared Blumenfeld, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment and Susan Leal, GM of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, from the Container Recycling Institute

Thirty million bottles end up in landfills every day — and considering that New York doesn’t have its own landfill anymore, we have to pay to dump our empty water bottles elsewhere. "Drink Tap Water for a Cleaner Environment", by Glenn, Upper Green Side, 02/07/2007

"Americans are throwing away 53 million water bottles a day. Eleven-thousand cubic yards of landfill space gone, just for empty bottles, each of which could have been re-used or avoided in the first place." Patton said. "Water is the most abundant natural resource on the planet and is now packaged and transported by using a non-renewable resource. Landfills are constant reminders to our children of our failures as a society. We failed to buy the right amount, failed to choose durable over convenience or cost, and failed to reuse or recycle." "Battling the Bottle", by Michael Patton, MET Executive Director, Tulsa World, 06/30/2007