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What about recycling?

RECYCLING

is not enough!

ISSUES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT

More than 282 That is the Enough to circle

billion liters of equivalent of the entire globe
bottled water are 5.1 billion 1-liter more than 10
consumed annually bottles per week. times in one week!

worldwide. 4

1 The production of plastic water 2 Most plastic bottles do not get
bottles and the process of bottling recycled and they end up in
water use precious resources such landfills, get burned (releasing
as energy and water itself, and toxic chemicals in the process),
they create greenhouse gasses. or simply get discarded. Many
Single-use plastic water bottles discarded plastic bottles and
have a carbon footprint of more their caps end up in rivers,
than half a million passenger oceans and lakes. Here they do
vehicles. 5 not go away. They accumulate.

4. John G. Rodwan, Jr. Bottled Water 2014: Reinvigoration, U.S. and International Developments and Statistics. www.bottledwater.org. Accessed online on June 2016.
5. EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies Calculator, as cited in https://www.moneycrashers.com/bottled-water-vs-tap-water-facts/ Accessed online February 2019.
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