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“A study by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that some bottled water contains bacterial contaminants, synthetic organic chemicals including industrial solvents, and inorganic contaminants such as arsenic. The report, “Bottled Water: Pure Drink or Pure Hype?” cites “gaping holes” in both state and federal under-funded bottled water regulatory programs. NRDC presents evidence of “substantially misleading marketing of some bottled water.” This NRDC report also states “At the national level, the Food and Drug Administration is responsible for bottled water safety, but the FDA’s rules completely exempt waters that are packaged and sold within the same state, which account for between 60 and 70 percent of all bottled water sold in the United States (roughly one out of five states don’t regulate these waters either).”

NRDC continues, “Even when bottled waters are covered by the FDA’s rules, they are subject to less rigorous testing and purity standards than those which apply to city tap water.“

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Do you work for the bottled water industry? Just curious.

Sure, recycling should be easy but it’s clearly not a priority for a lot of humans. I think the point you missed in my post is this: ” “Bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year. According to Food and Water Watch, that plastic requires up to 47 million gallons of oil per year to produce. And while the plastic used to bottle beverages is of high quality and in demand by recyclers, over 80 percent of plastic bottles are simply thrown away.”

47 MILLION GALLONS OF OIL PER YEAR to produce bottled water.

If you really want to be part of the solution, then take some “personal responsibility” and buy a reusable water container, such as those suggested in my post.

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The stainless bottles are really cool. They need to be cheaper and small enough to fit into car receptacles to replace the grocery store water, though.