Globally, one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute and the number will jump another 20% by 2021, creating an ecological emergency many campaigners anticipate will be as damaging as climate change itself.
New figures acquired by the Guardian newspaper uncovered the surge in demand for plastic containers, the greater part a trillion of which, will be sold every year before the decade's over.
The demand, proportional to around 20,000 bottles being purchased each second, is driven by an evidently voracious need for bottled water and the spread of a western, urbanized "in a hurry" culture, to China and the Asia Pacific area.
The UK is in danger of becoming a 'dumping ground' for plastic after Brexit.
More than 480 billion plastic drinking bottles were sold in 2016 globally, up from around 300 billion 10 years prior. On the off chance that they were set end to end, they would reach more than half the way to the sun! By 2021 this will increment to 583.3 billion, as indicated by the cutting-edge gauges in Euromonitor International's global packaging report.
Most plastic bottles utilized for soda pops and water are produced using polyethylene terephthalate (Pet), which is exceedingly recyclable. In any case, as their use accelerates across the globe, endeavours to gather and reuse the bottles to prevent them from dirtying the seas, are just not keeping up.
In addition, most mineral waters bought in plastic bottles are contaminated with the toxins from the plastic itself such as estrogen and bpas, so it is really not recommended to drink water from plastic bottles.
If you have to buy bottled water, stick to glass bottles always.
Bearing in mind it that plastic water bottles are destroying our environment , that it takes 1000 years for a plastic bottle to breakdown, and, that the water they contain is acidic and toxic why do people
keep on buying bottled water?
Watch this short video to relate to the scale of the problem.
Apart from the fact that the water contained in plastic bottles has zero health benefit,
and the environmental destruction, the cost involved is simply ridiculous!
It has been calculated that depending on age a person will spend around €30,000 on bottled water in a life time!
It seems we are decided on destroying the planet through our own ignorance!
One possible solution that I propose is this.
There are a number of alkaline water ionizers on the market that filter the toxins from your tap water
leaving you with delicious, healthy clean alkaline water.
The market leader in this industry is a Japanese company called ´´Enagic´´ who have been in business for 44 years who make the famous Kangen Water filters.
The Kangen systems are not cheap, but the components are of the best quality, the machines are guaranteed and are simple and easy to install.
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