NRDC REPORT: PURE DRINK OR HYPE? CONTINUED...

Unnecessary consumption of drinking water in plastic bottles is wasteful and damaging to the environment. Millions of plastic bottles are not recycled and end up in landfills, in parks and along roadways. Nine out of ten plastic water bottles end up as garbage or litter. That’s 30 million discarded plastic bottles each day— more than 10 billion a year. Large amounts of energy is consumed in manufacture, transportation, and recycling of the bottles.

NRDC Report:
The National Resources Defense Council
Report on Bottled Water
Pure Drink or Hype?

Bottled water does get scrutinized more than all other beverages and products packaged in plastic but bottled water should get singled out simply based on the fact you can’t go to your kitchen faucet and get soda or lotion to pour out of your tap.

“Paper or plastic?” should be replaced with, “Do you have your reusable shopping bag with you?”