The bottled water industry is a rapidly expanding business-to illustrate, consumers spend 100 billion U.S. dollars in all for this product every year. Most buyers perceive bottled water as cleaner and better than regular tap water, and is believed to have a positive health impact. But what about their environmental impacts?
Unfortunately, the industry is generally heralded as having a negative environmental impact. Too much energy and resources are used in the process of manufacturing and transporting the bottles, and even worse is the generation of solid waste, plastic bottles.
According to calculations Pacific Institute, the process of the bottled water industry to make plastic bottles used up in the U.S. used as much as 17 million barrels of oil each year, which is enough to supply 100,000 for 1 year.
Apart from the manufacture of these bottles, additional resources will be used for the transportation of products. A number of brands are imported and therefore have to be transferred over long distances by ships, transit by rail or truck. So much energy and resources are used only for the transport process of a product since it was manufactured, shops, and finally to consumer. For example, as described at best bottled water.com, 250 grams of CO2 is produced for each bottle of Fiji water sent to the U.S., this is composed of 93g for the China's water bottle, the bottle 46 to move to Fiji, where he filled with water and 153g bottle for transport to the U.S..
And while plastic bottles are generally made of materials that are recyclable, 80% of bottles of bottled water consumed in the U.S. just ended in landfill. Recycling rates are still lowest worldwide, with 90% of bottles are not recycled.
Unlike tap water, manufacturing and transporting the product uses large quantities oil, fossil fuels, and other resources. It also adds waste to landfills. Besides, what consumers need to know is that the city water Tap goes through rigorous testing and purification has rules. Tap water analysis is actually done more often than some commercial brands of water.
Some entities, such as a wholesaler of water in the County of Santa Clara in Northern California, are even urging people to drink tap water to reduce the environmental impact negative and reserve funds and resources. Now that you know more about the bottled water industry and its economic costs, will you still buy the product?
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