What are Tap bottles made from?
PET with stainless steel base and lid. Please click here for more info on PET. What’s your problem with bottled water then? The bottled water industry is a triumph of marketing over common sense. Although the UK has amongst the best tap water in the world, consumers spend nearly £2bn to buy it in bottles. This isn’t just silly, it’s bad… Manufacturing, bottling and transport leaves a hefty carbon footprint, especially when one quarter of all bottles travel over 1,000 km to reach British consumers. Bottled water is ridiculously overpriced, costing between 250 and 4,000 times more tap. But over 25% of bottled water is simply filtered tap water! Bottled water is rubbish – literally. Of the three billion empty plastic bottles thrown away each year, only 10% are recycled, the rest ends up as landfill. The bottled water industry consumes immense resources, requiring approximately 2.7 million tons of plastic each year. Bottlers can harm ground water levels if they bottle more water than is
