Saturday, April 23, 2011

It's not just the bottles that are produced, it's so much more!

Here are some more statistics of how producing the 30+ billion water bottles bought in 2006 can waste more than just plastic:

  • Requires the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil – enough to fuel more than one million vehicles for a year. (Note: This was erroneously reported by the New York Times as 1.5 million, and the error is repeated in many places.)

  • Produces more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.

  • Uses three times the amount of water in the bottle



  • source: http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2008/03/26/bottled_water/?s_src=ggad&s_subsrc=bottled&gclid=COmL04bvq6gCFUMUKgodFWRiIQ

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