All that energy goes into making the plastic bottles, treating the water, and, of course, shipping - sometimes from as far away as the South Pacific. (Photo by Lester Graham)
Bottled water burns up a lot of energy.
Rebecca Williams reports on a new study
that figured out how much:
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Bottled water burns up a lot of energy.
Rebecca Williams reports on a new study
that figured out how much:
Bottled water burns up a lot of energy.
Rebecca Williams reports on a new study
that figured out how much:
We Americans love our bottled water, for a lot of reasons. We actually drink more bottled water than beer.
And that bottled water uses lots of energy. As much as 2000 times more than tap water.
That’s from a new study in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
All that energy goes into making the plastic bottles, treating the water, and of course shipping. Sometimes from as far away as the South Pacific.
Peter Gleick is an author of the study. He says if you want to use less energy, tap water is the clear winner.
“Tap water may require a thousandth of the energy that it takes to bottle water. And the tap water in the United States is typically of very, very high quality, as high or higher than most of our bottled waters.”
He says buying local bottled water saves energy. So he says try to buy as close to home as you can.
For The Environment Report, I’m Rebecca Williams.