| I was asked the question the other day, are plastic | | | | and they are convinced that this water is safer for |
| water bottles eco friendly, and to tell you the truth it | | | | them to drink than what is coming out of their tap. |
| made me cringe. Despite all of the facts about how | | | | The truth is that it is not safer. |
| the environment is being damaged by just about | | | | If you are not someone who is interested in saving |
| everything that we humans produce, people still do | | | | the environment, then a better question to you than, |
| not recognize what is happening. It makes me think | | | | are plastic water bottles eco friendly, might be, are |
| that they turn the page, or mute the sound, | | | | they friendly to your body. Many people are taken in |
| whenever a report about the state of the | | | | by the word pure on the label, but there are actually |
| environment appears. | | | | no government standards that require bottled water |
| The number of toxins that we have allowed to enter | | | | to be any safer or purer than tap water. It has been |
| our groundwater system is threatening to make the | | | | proven that in many cases tap water is all that you |
| water that we have someday undrinkable. There is | | | | are paying for. |
| only about 1% of the water in the entire world that | | | | Bottled water has been recalled many times over the |
| is fit for us to consume, and we are in danger of | | | | past few years due to contamination by mold, |
| losing that. Already people have to filter their drinking | | | | bacteria, cleaning compounds, bromated, and arsenic, |
| water or run the risk of developing a life threatening | | | | and the bottles themselves emit phthalates and |
| ailment. | | | | benzene into the water. Since these two chemicals |
| Are plastic water bottles eco friendly? The truth is | | | | cause the development of cancer, the answer to, is |
| that experts believe that the tens of millions of | | | | pre-packaged water safe for you to drink, is the |
| plastic bottles that are being disposed of in our | | | | same as, are plastic water bottles eco friendly. |
| landfills on a daily basis will not fully break down for | | | | Now that the question, are plastic water bottles eco |
| up to 1000 years, and while they are undergoing this | | | | friendly, has been answered, I want you to think |
| process they will be seeping chemicals into the earth. | | | | about something. The best thing that you can do to |
| Therefore, no, these containers are not friendly to | | | | ensure you are drinking pure water is to filter it |
| the environment at all. | | | | through a home purification system, and then store it |
| We really should stop the production of plastic water | | | | in your own glass or stainless steel food grade water |
| containers, but the market for them has grown so | | | | bottles. This way you can enjoy all of the |
| huge that I don't see that happening anytime soon. | | | | convenience you want, and all of the purity you |
| Consumers like the convenience of being able to | | | | deserve. |
| carry their supply of water everywhere they want, | | | | |