Is bottled water bad for you?
Would you knowingly drink a bottle of chemicals or eat a piece of plastic? In effect you are doing just so when you choose to drink bottled water.
Facts on why it is bad for our health
A recent German-led study found that a single bottle of bottle water contained nearly 25,000 chemicals!
Plastic Water bottles are often stored in the desert in the hot sun or out in the open on container ships traveling across the world where the plastic gets soft and the chemicals leach into the water.
Plastic bottles contain chemicals which are known endocrine disruptors that affect hormones of humans and wildlife.
Facts on why it is bad for the environment
Bottling water is bad for the environment as it produces more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
Did you know that it takes 3 litres of water to produce 1 litre of bottled water.
More than five trillion pieces of plastic are already in the oceans, and by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish, by weight, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Did you know that Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Every year, 8 million metric tons of plastic end up in our oceans. which is equivalent to five grocery bags filled with plastic for every foot of coastline in the world.
The process of producing bottled water requires around 6 times as much water per bottle as there is in the container.
14% of all litter comes from beverage containers. When caps and labels are considered, the number is higher.
Approximately 1 million sea birds die from plastic each year.
At least two thirds of the world’s fish stocks are suffering from plastic ingestion.
Australia ’s annual use of bottled water generates more than 60,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions – the same amount that 13,000 cars generate over the course of a year.
More than 145.7 million litres of oil was used in the production, transportation, refrigeration and recycling/disposing of bottled water in Australia in 2009-10
Assuming the 582.9 million litres of bottled water produced in 2009-10 is in litre bottles, according to these figures, 373 million of those bottles will end up as waste.
To be honest this is just a selection of stats that I have come across. There is clearly no doubt in my mind that bottled water is bad for me and bad for the earth! Below you will find some videos discussing some of the reasons why bottled water is not the healthy or eco choice.
