Water is great
They don't actually produce the bottles. They buy them from another manufacturer and just fill them with water.
You're mostly paying for the cost of the bottle plus artificial markups for your water. A Brita filter for tap water is much more cost effective for the consumer assuming their tap water is safe.
A Brita filter for tap water is much more cost effective for the consumer assuming their tap water is safe.
Here (the Netherlands) tap water is much, much cleaner than bottled water. It’s subject to much stricter regulations than bottled water. If the stuff in bottled water would come out of your tap then the water company would be in big trouble.
I hate water companies as much as the next guy, but processing water can be really expensive and would be disastrous for a company to do poorly. This take is like saying "you know fence companies don't produce iron, right?" No, but it takes money to make the iron into a fence, just like it takes money to make water potable.
That said, water companies can still go eat a dick. Idk how ethical smaller companies like liquid death are, but I just refill a reusable bottle when at all possible. I will go thirsty out of spite if the only water available is Nestlé. There is a lot more to complain about than saying they "don't produce anything."
Turns out, plastic bottles put plastic into your system.
I really hate these headlines. "100 times more!!! Will somebody think of the children!!!"
A better headline would express if this is actually concerning or not for our health. 100 times more than an insignificant quantity can still be an insignificant quantity.
Let's put it this way: it's infinitely more plastic than would be in your body under natural circumstances.