Most people don’t realize the impact bottle water has on our environment. Sadly the Manufacturing, processing and transporting of bottled water, burns millions of barrels of oil, generated millions of tons of greenhouse gasses, and injects 38 billion plastic bottles into our landfills.
Plastic water bottles are made of petroleum, a non-renewable resource that requires new fossil reserves to be extracted all the time. In the U.S alone 1.5 million barrels of oil are consumed in making the bottles.
Most bottles end up in landfills, adding to our domestic landfill problems. Every year about 1.5 million tons of plastic go into manufacturing water bottles for the global market, using processes that release toxics such as nickel, ethyl benzene, ethylene oxide, styrene and benzene.
Bottle water companies are moving 1 billion bottles of water a week in ships, trains and trucks in the United Sates alone.