why anit bottle water good any more?

Question

i read on yahoo new yesterday about San franciso is trying to stop selling bottle water and drink tap water instead. it said something about the bottles and global warmming. I dont under stand. please exspale to me.♥

Answer 1

1 - They are made from oil, which causes a lot of pollution to pump from the bottom of the ocean.
2 - Plastics take 200-400 years to break down in ideal conditions; in landfills even longer.
3 - Sure plastics can be "recycled", but plastics do not recycle like other things do. Each plastic item is made from different resins. To recycle, those resins must be separated, which is very difficult to do. In the end, about 30% or less of the original product can actually be reused. In addition, most times oil prices are low enough that it would be cheaper for companies to just buy virgin materials rather than recycled ones. When that happens, most recycling plants just throw away the plastics they recive. In the end, about 10% of plastic containers are recycled in the United States.
4 - The transportation of bottled water uses thousands of gallons of gas, and with an average of about 19 pounds of carbon dioxide released per gallon of gas, it really adds up.

Also, like other users have said, many bottled waters are just filtered tap water that you could get at your home. It's cheaper and more environmentally friendly to get water from the tap.

Answer 2

Yes the connection to global warming is that water is heavy and bottled water needs to be moved around by truck. Thus you're wasting a lot of energy and burning a lot of gas transporting the water around when you could just as easily get it from your tap which just runs through the local water system.

The other big problem is the plastic bottles - only about 30% get recycled. The other 70% end up in landfills or as litter, and since they're plastic they don't biodegrade. So that's very wasteful.

The other reason not to buy bottled water is because the regulations are not very strict on its quality. Tap water has to meet very strict guidelines about what's in it, but bottled water isn't as strict. Because of this, studies have shown that bottled water is no cleaner than tap water, and sometimes it's got contaminants that you don't want to be drinking.

And finally, Dasani and Aquafina (Coke and Pepsi's bottled water) are just re-filtered tap water, so you're just paying for the same water you could have gotten for free at home!

It makes a lot more sense both environmentally and economically to just buy a reuseable water bottle for a couple bucks and fill it up with tap water. If you're concerned about your water quality, get a filter like Britta or PUR. I use a Britta pitcher at home so I can store the filtered tap water in my fridge and have it nice and cool when I want to drink it.

Answer 3

It takes a huge amount of energy to bottle water and move the bottles around. The bottles wind up in the trash, and need to be buried in landfills.

It's a very inefficient way to get water. It's much less demand on resources to get it from the tap or from a water fountain.

There are times when bottled water is appropriate, but people use it in enormous amounts. Billions of bottles every year.

Answer 4

The city of San Francisco will not pay for bottled water. It will rely on its own municipal tap water.

It takes fossil fuel to make and transport those plastic water bottles. No plastic water bottles are needed for the San Francisco's tap water.

Therefore, by not buying bottled water, San Francisco will be saving money and also reducing greenhouse gas emissions that result from making those plastic water bottles.

Answer 5

Mostly because the bottles themselves are a major pollution. Those plastic bottles are not bio degradable. Most bottled water is from the taps any way. Its a scam that the world has fallen for hook line and sinker ]

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Answer 6

I fill up my bottles with tap water. It's even better than recycling.

Tap water = $3 per 1000 gallons.
Bottled water = $10 per gallon.

Then I pay $100/year for my water filter.

The US throws away something like 3 billion bottles from bottled water per year.--That's your answer.

I do this purely for the financial reasons.

Answer 7

its not that san francisco as a whole arent buying water bottles anymore, its just city government departments will be the ones to stop purchasing bottled water, residents and businesses in sf will still have the liberty whether they want to buy bottled water or not. i do applaude the sf government for this move because it is unneccessary to use taxpayers money to purchase bottled water when san francisco receives very clean, crisp water (in my opinion). it takes huge amounts of energy to manufacture the plastic bottle and transport them god knows how far by truck. hopefully this move will spark other city government and its citizen to stop (or at least reduce) the purchasing of bottled water.

Answer 8

The problem is not the bottled water, It's the empty bottles you are stuck with after you drink it. Ques some people are to lazy to go find a drinking fountain.

Answer 9

I dont know, but another arguement of bottled water is the drinking saftey such as the metal in the drinks are not completely removed and may get a person sick.

Answer 10

They have not disposed of the bottles . The city should burning them in a steam boiler to get the energy to make electricity.