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The bottled water industry is getting a bad rap

070904_nestlewaters.jpgThe bottled water industry has recently come under attack by critics who say they are concerned about the quantity of water bottles going to our landfills and the energy used transporting them to market. But those who propose bans on bottled water don’t acknowledge that bottled water represents less than 1 percent of the municipal solid waste that ends up in landfills. Bottled water is only one beverage among hundreds that come in plastic containers. Nor do the critics acknowledge that bottled water is a healthy choice. (…) Our new ultra light ”Eco-Shape” bottles – already available in parts of the U.S. – will be available everywhere by the end of the year. The ”Eco-Shape” process drastically reduces the plastic content in each bottle. Eco-Shape bottles are 30 percent lighter than most other half-liter bottles; they are the lightest weight bottles of their size ever produced in the U.S. They will save the environment 65 million pounds of plastic in 2008, and they take less energy to make. Because we make all of our own packaging at Nestle Waters, we also save the environmental cost of shipping 160,000 truckloads of empty bottles into our plants annually, saving over 6 million gallons of fuel. Image source: iowawaterquality.org. > Continue.

News selected by Covalence | Country: USA | Company: Nestle | Source: Salt Lake Tribune / Nestle Waters North America Inc.

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