Today read an article by Lajla Mlinarić about bottled water here.
Bottled water, an increasingly popular drink in the world, has an exceptionally high price for the environment, adding to the amount of plastic waste and the depletion of natural sources, says the author of a recent report.
Bottled water is actually expensive – both in the ecological sense and the economic sense, claims Ling Li, the author of a report for the Worldwatch institute in
In developed countries, there is a threat of poorer control of quality of bottled water than that from the faucet. Apart from energy expenses of production, bottling, packing, storing and transport of bottled water, there is the price for the environment of millions of tonnes of plastic necessary for the production of bottles.
The beverage industry has most benefits from our obsession with bottled water, Ling stresses. But, this means nothing to the large number of poor people ion the world to whom drinkable water is luxury in the best scenario and an unreachable goal in the worst scenario.
Worldwatch estimates that some 35-50 percent of city residents of
Water is mostly filled into bottles made of pilyethilene-terephtalate (PET), for whose recycling less energy is needed and does not release chlorine in the atmosphere when burning. But, there is a fall in the rate of recycling: in the
Bottled water costs 240 to 10,000 times more than that from the faucet. In dollars, this means that such water sold in most industrially developed countries costs 500 to 1,000 dollars per squared metre, compared to 50 cents per squared metre in
The global consumption of water in the period from 1997 to 2005 has more than doubled, with the top consumer being the
