Perfecting Youth

Author(s): Udayvallabhvijay
Publisher: Samkit Yuvak Mandal

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Fact 2 : Recycling is only feasible in limited circumstances because only PET bottles can be recycled. All other bottles are discarded. Only 1 out of 5 bottles are sent to the recycle bin.
emissions costs of green house gases needed to transport the final product to market. Fact 5: It is estimated that actually 3 litres of water is used to package 1 litre of bottled water.
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Fact 3 : U.S. landfills are overflowing with 2 million tons of discarded water bottles alone.
An example: "In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji(brand) water consumed...."
26.88 kilograms of water (7.1 gallons) 0.849 kilograms of fossil fuel (1 litre or 0.26 gallon) Emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse gases (1.2 pounds)
Fact 4: It takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to meet the demand of U.S. water bottle manufacturing. This amount of oil, far exceeds the amount needed to power 100000 cars for a year, which does not include fossil fuel and
Bottled Water and Climate Change: Dr. Michael Warnhurst, Friends of the Earth's senior waste campaigner, said: "It is another product we do not need. Bottled water companies are wasting resources and exacerbating climate change. Transport is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions, and transporting water adds to
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