Bottled Water vs Tap Water
Bottled water’s environmental impact:
- 60 million plastic bottles a day are disposed of in America alone!
- Massive amounts of greenhouse gases are produced from manufacturing the plastic bottles.
- Millions of gallons of fuel are wasted daily transporting filtered tap water around the world.
- It requires three times as much water to make the bottle as it does to fill it… it is an exceptionally wasteful industry.
- Eight out of 10 plastic water bottles become landfill waste.
- Plastic bottles take 700 years before they begin to decompose in a landfill.
Using Brita filters is really a second safety step if you’re concerned about pollutants in the tap water. In terms of taste as being a deciding factor, use bottled for your drinking water if you’re having it plain; if you’re mixing it with other things like squashes or fruit juices, filtered or straight from the tap will suffice. But yes, the salty taste of our tap water due to the reverse osmosis plant puts people off, but as safety is concerned, water services corporation run hundreds of tests, and keep our water clean and safe, so much so, that it has more regulations of control and safety on our tap water, than what goes in European and local bottled water.
Resources : http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/08/30/t9.html / http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2009/10/25/t12.html / http://www.insidethebottle.org/malta-tough-questions-about-plastic-bottles /
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