Bottled Water - How it is effecting our planet (pt. 2)

My last post was more about why bottled water is an over priced joke, and this one will actually about how bottled water is accumlating too much plastic than our planet knows what to do with.

Worldwide about 2.7 million TONS of plastic is used to bottle water, anually. The most commonly used source for plastic polyethylene terepthalate (PET), which comes from oil. That means that 1.5 billion barrels of oil is used to package water each year. That amount of oil could fuel about 100,000 cares for a year. This wouldnt be such a big problem if people recycled more. Byt some 86% of bottled water is trashed or littered. Plastic can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. Thankfully, some companies are trying to take a more earth friendly approach at bottling their water. An example is BIOTA which puts its spring water into an eco-friendly, biodegradable plastic called polylactic acid, which comes from corn. This bottle will only take about 80 days to dissapear, as opposed to 1,000 years. So if youre going to bottle your water, at least think about the earth before yourself.