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Facts on Plastic Water Bottles
- There are 60 billion single-serving plastic bottles produced each year.
- 8 out of 10 single-serving plastic bottles are not recycled.
- Bottled water is extremely energy inefficient, because it has to be transported over long distances. Tap water is much "cleaner" environmentally.
- 1.5 million tons of plastic are used each year to bottle water.
- Reusable plastic bottles (#7 Lexan plastic in particular) have been linked with BPA, an endocrine disruptor that mimics estrogen. Drinking water or eating food containing leached BPA may cause chromosomal disruption, miscarriages, birth defects, or obesity.
- In the U.S. and Europe, there are more standards regulating the quality of tap water than of bottled water. There is no evidence that bottled water is safer to drink than tap water in these areas.
- A relatively new problem: In 1990, the world used 1.1 billion pounds of plastic bottles. By 2002, we used more than three times that amount!