The Bottled Water Myth - The Financial and Environmental Impact of Drinking Bottled Water

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John Davidson
The Bottled Water Myth - The Financial and Environmental Impact of Drinking Bottled Water
  1. What are the environmental impacts of bottled water?
  2. How does bottled water affect the economy?
  3. What is the environmental footprint of bottled water?
  4. Is bottled water a waste of money?
  5. Is it bad to drink bottled water everyday?
  6. Why should we avoid bottled water?
  7. Why do we pay for bottled water?
  8. Is bottled water healthier than tap water?
  9. What is good about bottled water?
  10. How much CO2 does a plastic bottle produce?
  11. How many liters of water does it take to produce a liter of bottled water?
  12. What is the carbon footprint of tap water?

What are the environmental impacts of bottled water?

80 percent of the plastic water bottles we buy end up in landfills. U.S. landfills are overflowing with more than 2 million tons of discarded water bottles. It takes up to 1,000 years for every single bottle of water to decompose. Each bottle leaks harmful chemicals into our environment along the way as it decomposes.

How does bottled water affect the economy?

With the growth of the Canadian bottled water industry, the country has become a net exporter of water products. Most of the bottled water produced in Canada is exported, worth hundreds of millions of dollars. The U.S. is Canada's largest market and U.S. exports comprise most of Canada's total bottled water production.

What is the environmental footprint of bottled water?

Each year, 35 billion plastic water bottles are thrown in the trash in the United States alone. The total carbon footprint of one 500 ml (16.9 oz) bottle of water is 828g of carbon dioxide. Water transported from overseas can have an even higher footprint!

Is bottled water a waste of money?

You're wasting money

If you're regularly buying bottled water, you're spending far more money than you would by just drinking out of the tap. According to the Beverage Marketing Corporation (BMC) the average cost of bottled water in 2016 was $1.11 per gallon.

Is it bad to drink bottled water everyday?

Safety. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) set the standards for bottled water. They require manufacturers to process and transport bottled water under sanitary conditions and to use processes that ensure the safety of the water. This means that, in general, bottled water is safe to drink.

Why should we avoid bottled water?

The plastic bottles leech chemicals into the water, which can lead to a number of problems. Small plastic bottles are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which leech in harmful plastic chemicals and hormone disruptors into the drinking water.

Why do we pay for bottled water?

Drinking bottled water helped people avoid diseases like cholera, typhoid and dysentery. But by 1920, most U.S. cities offered free, filtered, chlorinated water, which dramatically improved public health.

Is bottled water healthier than tap water?

Tap water and bottled water are generally comparable in terms of safety. So the choice of tap or bottled is mostly a matter of personal preference. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversees bottled water, while the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water.

What is good about bottled water?

Free of Impurities. Tap water is carefully prepared to be drinkable, but it goes through a lot to get to your faucet that can add contaminants and impurities back into it after it has been filtered. Bottled water is safe from these issues as it goes into the bottles in its purest form, clean of any debris or impurities ...

How much CO2 does a plastic bottle produce?

Processing plastic resins and transporting plastic bottles contribute to a bottle's carbon footprint in a major way. Estimates show that one 500-milliliter (0.53 quarts) plastic bottle of water has a total carbon footprint equal to 82.8 grams (about 3 ounces) of carbon dioxide.

How many liters of water does it take to produce a liter of bottled water?

The results, released this month, show that for North American companies, it takes 1.39 liters to make one liter of water. That's less than the global averages of a liter of soda, which requires 2.02 liters of water.

What is the carbon footprint of tap water?

Anyway, one litre of water has a footprint of just 0.298 grammes of CO² equivalents. So even if you had one very full bath - about 150 litres - every day for a year, overall it would represent just 15kg of greenhouse gas emissions.


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