Why is using water bottles not energy-efficient?

Question

a science hw question...i researched it up but there was nothing on it. Please help by the end of today!

Answer 1

all that energy to melt it down

Answer 2

just the main reason they are make out of oil which comes from factories that put out VOC s particulate matter and many other things.

Answer 3

hey chris, its steph.. good q.. lol

because shipping the watter bottles burns a lot of fossil fuels and it takes 206 billion megajoules to make 31.2 billion bottles

Answer 4

First of all it takes, energy to make the bottles as was already mentioned.  Another thing to consider is that tap water is usually taken from local sources and piped to your house were as bottled water is not usually bottled locally, so the water may have been shipped all the way across the country to get to you.  Water is heavy, and it takes a lot of energy to move it.

Answer 5

It takes a lot of energy to make the bottles (they are made from petroleum), and they have to be transported from the place where they are filled to the store, and eventually to your home.  If you can stand to drink your tap water, you will save all of this energy.

Answer 6

Well the plastic that makes water bottles come from oil.  It takes energy to make the bottle and then even more gas to ship it and cool it in refrigerators.  They are usually used only once so it also creates a lot of waste for when it isn't recycled.

Answer 7

Is the question "using water bottles" or "drinking bottled water"?  

I don't know why USING water bottles wouldn't be energy efficient, but drinking pre-bottled water creates a lot of waste since most areas (i'm assuming, i'm in a rural area)  don't have a deposit system or advantageous recycling program for water bottles, so they just end up in the garbage.  Think about a 36 pack of water bottles a week going into your garbage can.  That's a lot of plastic that SHOULD be recycled.

Answer 8

it takes a lot of energy to make the plastic and even though recycling is  better it still takes a lot of energy. reusable water bottles are much better  and at least where i live the tap is better for u than the bottled water because it is from the same place and still filtered but still has all the important minerals that bottled water doesnt. also bottled water is even more expensive the gas....and thats hard to believe now when gas is $4 a gallon....and the chemicals in the plastic might even link to cancer

Answer 9

http://byderule.multiply.com/journal/ite...

some stuff on water and bottles in here

Answer 10

It takes more energy and almsot 3 times the amount of water you are drinking to make that bottle of water.

Answer 11

Because if you buy water you buy the plastic, and it take energy to make the plastic bottle, so if you would just get up off your lazy @$$ and get a f'in glass and drink regular f'in water i would waist energy.