Here’s a statistic that you can’t water down: About 67 million plastic water bottles get tossed out each day, and, according to a piece by Dr. Joseph Mercola , “only 10 percent of these water bottles are ever recycled.” The remaining 90 percent end up in landfills, and plastic takes thousands of years to decompose.
According to Dr. Mercola, drinking
water from a plastic container “poses serious risks to you and your family.” Choosing plastic exposes you to chemicals like BPA and phthalates that have been linked to, among other things, to a wide range of developmental and reproductive problems.
water from a plastic container “poses serious risks to you and your family.” Choosing plastic exposes you to chemicals like BPA and phthalates that have been linked to, among other things, to a wide range of developmental and reproductive problems.
What resources go into producing all that waste? According to treehugger.com, about “1.5 million barrels of oil – enough to run 100,000 cars for a whole year – are used to make plastic water bottles.” That does not include the fuel burnt in transporting the empty bottles to the water source and the filled bottles to the consumers.
One Grand Rapids, Mich., company, with the eponymous title, “Boxed Water Is Better LLC ,” manufactures and sells boxed water containers. Their claim is that their container is far more eco-friendly: “About 76% of the box is from a renewable resource, trees.”
They harvest their raw material from “certified, well-managed forests,” and their boxes are recyclable. The Carton Council , a group of carton manufactures, whose goal is to keep valuable carton empties from ending up in landfills, would welcome wider use of boxed water, because over 74 percent of most cartons are made from recyclable paperboard. Given these facts, boxed water is a more environmental friendly packaging material than plastic bottles.
Source: Eco-Efficiency (http://goo.gl/lq1GDy)
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