Eartha Steward: Bottled water – What a waste!
Once again, we are returning to one of my favorite subjects to talk about – plastic! Tonight is the long awaited showing of a very powerful movie, “Tapped.” The movie is quite impactful, as it examines the environmental and social issues behind the bottled water industry.
By now, most of you “Ask Eartha” followers should know nothing gets me more fired up than single-use plastic bags and water bottles. It seems silly to buy bottled water in Summit County. We have very tasty tapped water! It is the reason I was shocked to hear Annie Leonard say: “… people in the U.S. buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week.”
According to Pacific Institute (www.pacinst.org), the energy costs of bottled water including the manufacture of the plastic, the bottling, and the distribution, is up to 2,000 times more than tap water. Let’s take a look at those energy costs a little more closely:
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