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January 16, 2008
Some Bottled Water Facts for Thought
Here are some bottle water facts to consider based on 2006 figures gleaned from Waste Management World and The Pacific Institute:
More than 25.5 billion plastic water bottles are sold each year in the US.
More than 17 million barrels of oil (not including fuel for transportation) were used in plastic bottle production.
Bottling water produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
It takes approximately 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water.
The total amount of energy used to produce, transport, refrigerate, and dispose of a plastic bottle of water may be as high as the equivalent of filling a 1 liter bottle one-quarter full of oil.
All this plus "considering that an equal amount of municipal water costs about 1/2000th the price of bottled water, it's a very foolish expenditure," says Neva Goodwin, co-director of the Global Development and Environment Institute, a Medford, MA based research institute, as reported by The Christian Science Monitor.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at January 16, 2008 02:52 PM
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