05-31-2014, 01:02 PM
Also, I heard a story on NPR last week about bottled water. Regardless of recycling efforts, 6 out of 7 empty water bottles ends up in landfills. It takes the equivalent of three bottles of water to produce one bottle, it's per unit cost is stupid expensive, and most bottled water comes from city taps anyway. And even after changing the composition of the plastic, there is still a reaction to add chemicals to the water, especially if the bottle sits in the sun in a car and heats up, for example.