Why are so many people attacking the Bottled Water Industry?
Bottled water is an 11.2 Billion industry at the time of this writing. Coca Cola the #1 Soft Drink Company in the world had revenue of $31.9 billion. Many are making in issue over the plastic bottles filling landfills. Is anyone attacking Coca Cola over this issue? They use more bottles… the same plastic! How about any of the other soft drink manufacturers? So is the issue plastic bottles in landfills? Is it really? Water bottles are recyclable. Soda Bottles are recyclable. So whets the real problem? Sounds to me like it’s more of an issue of social responsibility than pollution. The next attack on the Bottled Water industry is that the Bottled water is just overpriced tap water. Oh really? Just tap water? In a study by Ohio State University found that 39 out of 57 bottled water samples did indeed have “purer” water than tap water. Yes they also found that some bottled water contained bacteria in amounts higher than some tap water systems. But that’s still 68.4% chance that a bottle
