Some of the Facts About Bottled Water

Some of the Facts About Bottled Water

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• It isn't held to the same testing standards in some areas as tap water
• When heated, water bottles can leach BPA into the water.
• Bottled water is often tap water! There's a difference between "filtered water" and "natural spring water." Natural spring water=from an actual spring. You'll find filtered water on the market for just as much as spring water, which is really just filtered tap water. Dasani and Aquafina are two "filtered water" products.
• estimates that bottled water uses 6x the amount of water actually in the bottle to produce it! What a waste!
• Another fact from Treehugger: bottled water production uses large amount of oil to produce the bottle.
• Transporting the empty bottles to their filling destinations uses energy and releases harmful emissions. Then, transporting the heavy filled bottles uses even more energy. Just so you can twist the cap for some filtered tap water!

  If you do drink bottled water, do you recycle the bottles?

  If you do, you're in the minority. Sadly only 20% of consumers recycle the bottles. The other 80% throw them away. These bottles will take hundreds to thousands of years to decompose in a landfill and we're running out of room. by:internet http://www.squidoo.com/bottled-water-vs-tap-water