The Impact of Water Bottle Pollution
Plastic bottles are used widely in our homes to store drinking water, aerated drinks, juices, sodas, milk, and more liquids. The most common type of plastic bottles manufactured is PET bottles, which require huge amounts of fossil fuels to produce. Single-use plastic water bottles are used to package mineral drinking water. Statistics reveal that more than 50 billion plastic water bottles are sold worldwide in a year. The plastic water bottles environmental impact of manufacturing these many bottles is very damaging. The production of plastic water bottles requires up to 17 million barrels of oil each year. This much quantity of oil is enough to fuel up to one million cars for an entire year. Additionally, it takes three times the volume of water to manufacture one bottle of water than it does to fill it. Because of the chemical process of manufacturing, the water cannot be used. Valuable and limited resources of the earth’s water and fossil fuel get wasted in the manufacturing o...