Why is bottled water bad for the environment?

Question

I was reading an article that had a sentence about it, but didn't explain. I'm curious if it's bad because people don't recycle the plastic, or if they might've meant purolator water or something else?

I get my water bottles from a local place, the large water bottles that go on the water cooler, they super-filter the tap water to remove impurities. Is this at all environmentally unsound?

Please let me know, thanks.

Answer 1

Basically all the left over bottles and the energy wasted filtering it, putting it into the bottles, manufacturing the bottles from oil and all the gas used distributing something you could get out of your tap even if you needed to put a $20 carbon filter on it if you were paranoid about drinking it. That's what I do instead of paying 4 bucks a gallon or more for it.

Answer 2

I had no idea that bottled water was bad for the environment, maybe is because of the plastic of bottle....I guess or I don´t know !!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

The only argument i have heard is the plastic bottle recycling. I understood that most people do not recycle and recycling is not a perfect art yet. There is still some waste. Also, drops in water tables in areas that do mass bottling and the shipping and transport of bottled water cause polution. We have underground pipes to bring us all the water we need tap!

Answer 4

Plastic is bad for the environment.  It never decomposes, so once it's thrown out it's always there.  And also because it's manufactured with by-products of petroleum which is also bad.

Answer 5

is that accurate?

Answer 6

It's strange that such a necessity  would become a problem.

Water bottled...That his the problem, to market something tha

his essential, to used it like it had a price and to top it off,

pollute its very source whit its  plastic container.

Answer 7

not water is bad, the bottles are bad........Millions of plastic bottles pollute our landfills daily

Answer 8

It's not the water that's bad for the environment, it's the containers. High Density Polytethylene plastic is made from petroleum products and I believe it takes anywhere from 2,000 to 5000 years to biodegrade if left to recycle on its own.

Too many people don't recycle these containers because it's a hassle and the payback isn't really worth it to most people.

For example: one full 33 gallon trash bag of plastic water bottles is worth about $4.00. In most people's eyes, that's hardly worth the effort of dealing with bulky, sticky, smelly, gross saliva covered water bottles.