BOTTLED WATER... THE FACTS!!
- 3 billion litres of bottled water are consumed in Britain per year
- Bottled water retails up to 500x more than the price of tap water
- The UK bottled water industry is worth £2 billion per year and is the fastest growing drinks market in the world!
- You pay more for branded bottled water (average £1.00 per 50cl) than petrol or diesel.
- In one year in the UK 13 billion plastic bottles of water were sold and only 3 billion were recycled.
- For a one litre PET disposable water bottle to be produced it requires 162g of oil and seven litres of water. This releases 100g of carbon dioxide (CO2).
- Drinking one bottle of water has the same impact on the environment as driving ‘a car’ for one kilometre
- The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has campained heavily that bottled water is environmentally unfriendly and also a waste of consumers money
- The Eastern Garbage Patch is an area 6 times the size of England located in the North Pacific Oceon. Plastic outweighs plankton by 6:1... It's the world's largest waste dump.
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