So on this lovely Saturday evening, I decided to stay home and keep it easy and pick out one of the many awesome documentaries on Netflix.
I went along with the documentary entitled, “Tapped.” It was about the bottled water industry in America. Sounded entertaining and insightful- so I pressed play.
Here are some important facts that I learned that I think is vital for everyone to know and understand.
- Bottled Water Industry is worth an estimated 800 billion dollars (which is why big corporations want a part of it)
- Nestle, Pepsi, and Coke-Cola are the three top bottled water companies in America
- Pepsi’s “Aquafina” and Coke’s “Dasani” bottled water are actually made from normal TAP water- you’re paying for tap water when you could get it for FREE at home! Think twice before purchasing these two..or just don’t do it at all.
- In the USA- only 20% of beverage containers getting recycled – and it’s been declining over the years
- Bottled water is packaged in PET or PETE- the primary ingredient in PET is a clear liquid derived from crude oil- 80% of PET created in the USA is found in Nestle ,Pepsi, or Coke beverage containers
- PET water bottles contains Benzene- which causes cancer - bottled water is not a healthy product!
- Plastic water bottle manufacturing uses 714 MILLION gallons of oil – That is enough to fuel 100,000 CARS
- People living near oil refineries who produce PET- have a higher rate of cancer, birth defects and other health risks from the pollutant exposure in their neighborhood from the refinery
- Tap water is highly regulated / Bottled water is virtually unregulated
- Municipal tap water has to be tested constantly every day: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates tap water testing- Water is tested 300 times a month with a city over 1 million residents
- You really don’t know what you are getting in bottled water…arsenic? Yes-it’s been found. Toluene as well- this chemical is found in gasoline and paint thinner and is obviously very harmful for your health
- Styrene- a chemical found in bottled water tested after being in trunk of a car for a week-causes serious reproductive complications
- BPA- a chemical found in plastic water bottles and 5 gallon jugs – linked to more human diseases increased in over the past 30 years
- 80 million single-use bottles of water are consumed daily in America- 30 million end up in landfills (a lot ends up in the Pacific Ocean..and ends up deposited on some distant shore)
Kamilo Beach, Hawaii. Not appealing to lay out on, is it?
Sand? No, more like plastic.
