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Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem

Bottled water, a natural resource taxing the world's ecosystem

Bottled water causing environmental problems. Really? What a surprise.

Taking clean tap water, running it through a filter and putting it into a PET bottle is wasteful? Say it ain't so!

It takes oil and natural gas to make PET bottles. Some 1.5 million barrels of oil annually. And then there's the waste stream created. More energy to carry it to the dump or city recycling center. More energy to transport it to a recycling plant or China. Why is oil $60+ a barrel again?

$8-10 a gallon?
People complain about gasoline being $2 a gallon, but think of it this way...Buy gasoline in a 16 ounce bottle and suddenly $2.109 becomes 26 cents, taxes paid. Think about it next time you spend $1.25-1.50 for 16 ounces of Dasani or Aquafina.

I've personally seen Aquafina being bottled. City tap water is run through a filter and put directly into the bottles. No magic here folks, just an amazing profit machine. You thought carbonated sugar water was a money maker? Try 500+ gallons for a dollar, being sold retail for over $4,000. $4,000.00. Quite a profit margin for filtering clean water.

You're better off buying 1 bottle, refilling it and recycling it when its funky.

Anyway, I need a chuckle, so check out this list of normal items with their cost per gallon:

Chanel No. 5 Perfume: $45,000
Nail Polish: $1,000
Visine Eye Drops: $740
Cough Syrup: $100
CSun-block lotion: $90
Pepto-Bismol: $60
White-out: $25
Evian bottled water: $20
Coffee from coffeehouse: $19
Corona beer: $13
Snapple: $10
Coke: $8

posted by 30dollarwatch @ 12:03 PM