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This “invention” of bottled water infuriates me.
FACTS:
The world produces 1.5 BILLION plastic water bottles a day!!
That’s close to 25 million tons of plastic a year is made and dumped on river, oceans landfills or burned to go up into the air as single use plastic bottles.
Plastic bottles are made out of polyethylene terephthalate, a resin derived from petroleum & natural gas. These fossil fuels are heated up and mixed with water to create plastic.
It takes roughly 2 liters of water to make a single 1 liter water bottle. Math= a 1 liter water bottle filled with water takes up 3 liters of water.
Do the math on how much water is used up and what happens to all the contaminated water that eventually is dumped back into the environment.
Today about 50% of bottled water is filled with spring water “that magically appears and magically is not going into its original destinations i.e streams and rivers.
The other half of brands of bottles water comes from filtered tap water. The same places we get water out of our tap to do our dishes, laundy, water lawns, & flush our toilets etc. Same water from the gas station tap as the water you buy there
Coca Cola & same company – Dasani makes over 40 differently disguised bottled waters all coming from the same taps of the same one bottling facility. Out of its hundreds of bottling facilities throughout the world churning out different arrays of soft drinks & the obviously even more profitable differently named bottled waters.
Between manufacture & transportation, about 63 billion gallons of oil are used to supply the United States with plastic bottles each year.
People use the excuse- well they say they can be recycled. Fact- less than 5% of bottles are able to be recycled. The other 95% again magically dissappear to fairy trash land- aka- out of sight out of mind.
Here is the deal & what I think is the most important part. The luxury of living in a “1st world country & the USA” modern day infrastructure has taken enormous steps to source, treat, filter water for safe worry free drinking water. If we choose to buy more than care… More in coments below. #hateplastic #water | Posted on 20/May/2024 00:13:11
