Although all PET bottles are 100% recyclable, most are not recycled. Consequently, plastic bottles are terrible for the environment!
As well as this, Americans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.’s recycling rate for plastic is only 23%, which means 38 billion water bottles are wasted each year. This is over one billion dollars worth of plastic wasted per year.
As well as this, the rate for recycling plastic bottles in the UK is only 35%. Even though it was only 3% in 2001, there is still a long way to go until bottles are recycled 100% of the time. Bottles which are not recycled are sent to landfill sites where they can take up to 1000 years to decompose, and therefore are polluting the environment.
We genuinely believe that if you do have to buy bottled water, make sure that it is recycled after use, as it is for the good of the world. However, this is just one example of how careless and unthoughtful people are, and why we should either start recycling or stop buying bottled water in the first place.
Sources
http://www.bottledwater.org/education/recycling
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/etc/news-water.php
http://www.recyclenow.com/facts-figures/how-it-recycled/plastic-bottles
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