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Fast Facts About Bottled Water

Hi! This is just a super quick post to get you thinking and stimulate your own research, here goes:  It takes between 2 and 6 TIMES the amount of water contained in the bottle to make the plastic bottle itself.  To create bottled water products, the water is pumped, transported, packed, chilled, transported again, then held in store where more often than not it is also maintained chilled. All this takes an enormous amount of energy, oil, and greenhouse gas emissions before that cap even comes off. (choose zero waste products instead, biome has an AWESOME range) "But I recycle!"  Sorry, you're not off the hook either, recycling single use plastic (while WAY better than chucking it in the ocean or in landfill) is not the wonderful answer to plastic pollution we dream it to be. Recycling is not a magical process, again it takes resources to collect it, transport it, sort it, transport it again, process it and turn it into something new - each step of this...