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It is hard to argue the fact that waste management has become a large problem in the
world, with landfills growing to enormous sizes and recycling rates remaining dismally
low. The number of plastic bottles produced by the bottled water industry and subsequently discarded by consumers has only increased this problem.Besides the sheer number of plastic bottles produced, the energy required to manufacture and transport these bottles to market severely drains limited fossil fuels.
Bottled water companies, due to their unregulated use of valuable resources and their
production of billions of plastic bottles present a significant strain on the environment.
Reusing plastic bottles further compromises the quality of our water supplies, due to the
fact that more and more chemicals leach from the plastic into the water as the bottles
gets older. Bottled water companies transportation needs further contribute to green house gas emissions and environmental pollution and overall the bottled water industry causes a severe strain on the environment. This environmental damage will, over time, significantly lessen the quality of water which we all rely upon for tap supplies and that the water bottlers themselves also access to place in bottles.
Safe plastic?
The bottled water industry contends that plastics used for water bottles are safe however the Berkley Plastics Task Force Report in 1996 stated:
“Examples of plastics contaminating food have been reported with most polymers, including styrene from polystyrene, plasticizers from PVC, antioxidants from polyethylene, and acetaldehyde from PET.” Furthermore, says the report: “In studies cited in Food Additives and Contaminants, 25 LDPE, HDPE, and polypropylene bottles released measurable levels of BHT, Chimassorb 81, Irganox PS 800, Irganix 1076, and Irganox 1010 into their contents of vegetable oil and ethanol" and "Evidence was also found that acetaldehyde migrated out of PET water bottles and into water.”
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