Refill your water bottle
With a 154 billion litres world market and an average cost per litre almost as much as petrol in some countries, no wonder bottled water companies try to make you believe that tap water is unsafe. But it’s not, and today in our age of climate change buying bottled water is “environmental insanity”.
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With free and safe drinking water running on tap
, buying bottled water is a wasteful luxury that has rightfully been called: “environmental insanity.” In our age of climate change the ecological impact of bottled water is simply too high through producing plastic bottles (the oil used to produce plastic water bottles in the UK alone could run 17,000 cars) and then you have both the transportation and the disposing of the bottles.
In the United Kingdom, more than two billion litres of bottled water are sold each year and the market is growing close to 10 percent a year. While the costs of tap water in Britain is £1 per 1,000 litres, bottled water cost an average of 95 pence, which is close to the price of petrol per liter.
The impact:
In the UK, bottled water produces about 33,200 tons of CO2 emissions each year, and the total amount of energy used to produce one bottle is equivalent of filling the bottle a quarter full of oil.
Knowing that water is becoming a major shortage in the world, it is not difficult to figure out the motive of big business both for privatising water sources and for making consumers believe that tap water is unsafe. But as in most industrialised countries, Britain’s tap water is safe and under constant quality inspection. So, in todays climate where we need to be carbon-footprint conscious, bottled water is the wrong choice in the wrong direction.
Solution: Bring your own bottle and refill it!
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Bottled water - eau no!
by Julia Hailes The Telegraph, 19/02/2008 "I've been drinking bottled water for 30 years and I'll go on doing it until the day I die" said one caller to the Radio 5 phone-in I was participating in. The debate was supposed to be about whether it is immoral to drink...
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'Environmental insanity' to drink bottled water
The Independent, 29 June 2006 Campaigners have attacked Britain's £2bn thirst for bottled water as "environmental insanity" after a report showed that tap water in the UK is among the safest and purest in the world. More than two billion litres of bottled water fly off shop shelves every year and sales are growing at nearly 9 per cent a year ...
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Refilling my water bottle
I promise to refil my water bottle every day at work, so that I will not waste energy through buying bottled water instead.
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