Since it is not good for the environment to buy water in plastic bottles since petroleum is used, is it also bad to have them recycled? If so, what is suggestion for disposal?
2007-07-20 05:09:00 · 9 answers · asked by swirl1008 2 in Environment ➔ Green Living
Being made of petroleum doesn’t mean these should be recycled. Quite the opposite, the more you can recycle petroleum products the less oil will have to be dragged out of the ground to produce them and the less plastic will be sitting in landfill for thousands of year. Your local council should recycle them for you.
On the wider point about Bottled water, the energy and petroleum used in transporting it is a major reason not to buy it. Drink tap water and if you are going somewhere fill some of those empty bottles you don’t know how to dispose of, and fill them up to take with you.
If for some reason you really have to buy it buy a brand that has travelled the shortest distance to where you are.
2007-07-20 06:12:11 · answer #1 · answered by jack 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not cost effective at this time to mass recyle plastic bottles- there are only a few applications we can use them for right now.
What should be happening here is people stopping buying water when there is almost always free, tasty water within feet of the vending machines, and we should start using refillable bottles that we never need to discard.
What ever happened to our national common sense that we started paying $1.25 a bottle for water that is, in most cases, just bottled filtered tap water?
2007-07-20 12:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, you definitely want to recycle the bottles after purchasing them. Just purchase them as infrequently as possible - try to bring your own water from home or look for water fountains or other alternatives like that.
2007-07-20 12:40:57 · answer #3 · answered by Dana1981 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is best to use reusable water bottles. But if you do buy th plastic ones you should recycle them so more petrolium is not wasted to make more plastic bottles.
2007-07-20 17:26:45 · answer #4 · answered by palladin727 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the use of bottoled water to me is a complete waste of time,peopel have been convinced by big,gready compaines that there water is better for you,do you think this is true?. if you do then do you shower in it or wash with it&brush your teth.wat do you do with your empty bottols,99.9% do not recycle that is a fact, all you have to do to prove this is look in our streets& and our bins they are full of the dam things,and a nother thing we should rember is our councils make very little efort if any to recycle the waste they collect from street waste just look in at your waste centre, right in to the incinorator to polute our air,terry
2007-07-20 17:52:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on who you listen to, it is not good for the "environment" to have humans living on the planet at all. Just stop drinking water altogether, you are wasting a valuable natural resource, and contributing to the destruction of the planet. Did you kill a plant to eat breakfast today? You planet wrecker! Stop eating food too, you will produce less methane emissions and help heal the ecology.
2007-07-20 12:45:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
dont buy it at all . plastic bottles can only be recycled once and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose.
2007-07-20 12:21:11 · answer #7 · answered by Ali 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its best to have them recycled that way petrol products won't have to be used to make other products that can be made from recycled materials
2007-07-20 12:18:14 · answer #8 · answered by awwwdree 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
recycle anything that says please recycle.
2007-07-20 12:59:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋