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How harmful is bottled water to the environment?

bobbonew: I saw an interesting image here:

http://tinyurl.com/c9ydk6

Which really made me question America's addiction towards bottled water. Apparently it is almost 1000 times more expensive than tap water!

3 years ago

Answers

	Guest - 0 pts - (3 years ago)
	Companies selling bottled water like to say it's not that bad because the bottles are recyclable. The truth is that only a small percentage gets recycled and the rest are here to stay for hundreds of years in our landfills and in our environment. The crazy thing is that a lot of it IS tap water that has been filtered enough to make it taste a little better. Recycling plastic is also more like 'downcycling' every time a plastic item is melted down, its quality degrades a bit. Bottles can be recycled and made into park benches or fleece jackets, but not usually back into food safe bottles.

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