Top 6reasons to avoid bottled water are global in nature. Especially in the developed world — US and European Countries — there are many alternatives, mostly even better than bottled water. Choosing to be part of the solution to resolve plastic pollution and reduce carbon emissions while increasing access to drinkable water is a simple objective. It all comes to our choices.
Among the top reasons to avoid bottled water:
1–1 million bottles a minute and counting
No matter how you look at this — it’s not sustainable. 60 million bottles per hour… 1.4billion a day!
Only 9% of these “highly recyclable bottles” have been recycled. They are mostly not even REcycled, but DOWNcycled.
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91% goes into landfill and the environment.
2 — Carbon footprint
The most surprising aspect of writing this article was the difficulty in finding an unbiased study on the carbon footprint of water. The majority of the resources available online are funded, or conducted, by the bottled water industry.
There is one article that summarizes the found studies and results in one place. However, before jumping into that let’s consider all the different aspects of carbon emissions of bottling water.
- Bottle: extraction, production, processing, transportation, collection, recycling, waste management of the plastic and bottle.
