Bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year. According to Food and Water Watch, that plastic requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce. And while the plastic used to bottle beverages is of high quality and in demand by recyclers, over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away. That assumes empty bottles actually make it to a garbage can. Plastic waste is now at such a volume that vast eddies of current-bound plastic trash now spin endlessly in the worlds major oceans. This represents a great risk to marine life, killing birds and fish which mistake our garbage for food. Read more: mnn/food/healthy-eating/stories/5-reasons-not-to-drink-bottled-water#ixzz3HpDbxS3s
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 13:57:40 +0000