1. CHAPTER - Environment
Environment
• The carbon footprint is enormous
• Broken brittle bottles…find their way into landfills (less than 40% are
recycled)
• Gas and diesel fuel requirements to transport heavy full bottles?
• It removes water from aquifers and springs at an unsustainable rate
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• 650 million plastic water bottles are thrown into landfills in Ontario alone
• Plastic takes over 300 years to degrade in nature.
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