The “Food Facts” publications are a series of short reports on
over a dozen different products, that show how people’s shopping
choices – as well as government policy – can protect the
environment, enhance social justice and improve health. For a
full list of titles, please see the left-hand menu. The taps are
turning - Are we ending our love affair with bottled water? In
December 2006, Sustain produced a report called 'Have you
bottled it?' which aimed to raise awareness about how bottled
water provides no health benefits over tap water and also about
the detrimental effects that it has on the environment and also
our wallets. We concluded that: - tap water in the UK is one of
the highest quality tap waters in the world; - tap water is
great value for money, providing 50 glasses for a penny; - taste
tests continue to show that tap water is equal to the taste of
bottled water; - bottled water generates thousands of tonnes of
plastic waste, most of which is not recycled; and although most
bottled water is from