Some Fun Facts...

• Americans pitch 38 billion water bottles a year into landfills -- in excess of $1 billion worth of plastic. And 24% of the bottled water we buy is tap water repackaged by Coca-Cola

• The global rate of consumption more than quadrupled between 1990 and 2005
• Bottled water processed with distillation or reverse osmosis lacks fluoride ions which are sometimes naturally present in ground water. The drinking of distilled water may conceivably increase the risk of tooth decay due to a lack of this element
• Australians spend more than half a billion dollars a year on bottled water. Australia produced 582.9 million litres of bottled water in 2009-10¹.

• Producing and delivering a litre of bottled water can emit hundreds of times moregreenhouse gases than a litre of tap water.
• In many cases, a litre of bottled water is more expensive than a litre of petrol.
• Australia recycles only 36% of PET plastic drink bottles². Assuming the 582.9 million litres of bottled water produced in 2009-10 is in litre bottles, according to these figures,373 million of those bottles will end up as waste.
• Australia’s annual use of bottled water generates more than 60,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions - the same amount that 13,000 cars generate over the course of a year.
• Approximately 15,253.79 tonnes of PET³ was used in the packaging of bottled water in 2009-10⁴

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