http://www.bizenergy.ca/blog/plastic-water-bottles-and-the-environment-how-bad-is-bad/ BizEnergy is Canada's business energy efficiency resource, with an initial focus on the restaurant industry. Sun, 15 Sep 2013 02:53:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.bizenergy.ca/blog/plastic-water-bottles-and-the-environment-how-bad-is-bad/#comment-641 threescoops – Inside the Bottled Water Industry’s 280,000% Mark-Up Sun, 15 Sep 2013 02:53:08 +0000 http://www.bizenergy.ca/?p=2539#comment-641 [...] The impact of bottled water isn’t just being felt in remote areas of the world. No matter where you are, the effects are very real… in the surrounding land and air. For the global market, bottles made exclusively to package water swallow about 1.5 million tons of plastic. Plastic is made from oil, so if you do the conversation, that comes out to about 1.5 million barrels of oil every year. Just for bottled H20. Of course, the manufacturing process is not clean either, releasing toxins into the environment (think benzene, ethylbenzene, ethylene oxide, and other chemicals with very long names). Sure, recycling’s all the rage these days (not really), but most of these bottles still end up in landfills, or worse, in the ocean. [...] [...] The impact of bottled water isn’t just being felt in remote areas of the world. No matter where you are, the effects are very real… in the surrounding land and air. For the global market, bottles made exclusively to package water swallow about 1.5 million tons of plastic. Plastic is made from oil, so if you do the conversation, that comes out to about 1.5 million barrels of oil every year. Just for bottled H20. Of course, the manufacturing process is not clean either, releasing toxins into the environment (think benzene, ethylbenzene, ethylene oxide, and other chemicals with very long names). Sure, recycling’s all the rage these days (not really), but most of these bottles still end up in landfills, or worse, in the ocean. [...]

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