The World’s Greatest Pollutant: Bottled Water Environmental
groups across the globe have been sounding the alarm for several
years now regarding the health and environmental dangers of the
popular bottled water trend. The environmental danger is in both
the manufacture and disposal of billions of water bottles and
the fact that plastic bottles make up a sizable portion of the
enormous plastic garbage patch currently floating around in the
Pacific Ocean. This enormous plastic reef is currently more than
twice the size of Texas and growing rapidly a few hundred miles
off the California coast. When soft drink sales declined in the
United States as large corporations such as PepsiCo, Coca Cola
and Nestle figured they could make as much money off of bottled
water by presenting it as a healthy alternative to sodas. Even
better, much of the bottled water comes from the same sources as
tap water making bottled water cheaper to produce but with an
equal or higher price tag than a bottled soft drink. Still
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