Tapped out
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Wednesday, July 25, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Nearly all bottled water “…comes in bottles derived from oil, commonly called PET for polyethylene terephthalate. Nationally only 14.5 percent of PET bottles for non-carbonated drinks were recycled, creating 2 million tons of trash that will not degrade for hundreds of years in landfills.” The best selling personal sized waters are Pepsi’s Aquafina and Coca-Cola’s Dasani – which are both filtered versions of municipal tap water (!!!) packaged in PET bottles…BS
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/07/25/tapped_out?mode=PF
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