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Peak_a_Boo on May 28, 2008 - 6:36pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

for what it is worth

According to the Pacific Institute’s fact sheet [PDF], manufacturing the 30+ billion plastic water bottles we bought in 2006:

> Required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil - enough to fuel more than one million vehicles for a year. (Note: This was erroneously reported by the New York Times as 1.5 million, and the error is repeated in many places.)
> Produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide.
> Used three times the amount of water in the bottle.
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http://green.msn.com/Articles/article.aspx?aid=368&GT1=45002

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plucky underdog on May 29, 2008 - 12:40am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

the 30+ billion plastic water bottles we bought in 2006 ...

Who is this we you speak of, Kemosabe?

So drink tapwater and dress in recycled paper coveralls that you can use as fuel every month or two when they become obnoxious for other folk to be around. Sheesh.

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Peak_a_Boo on May 29, 2008 - 1:01am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

refer to the link for author and details.

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RobinPC on May 30, 2008 - 4:48am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

Here in the uk I recently bought loads of Buxton water (best quality spring)in 1.5 litre bottles, from my local T*sh*tco and it cost 17p per litre, or 34p per litre at usual price. I have to conclude that the US dollar must be really worth 0.1 GB Pounds rather than the ~0.6 generally supposed.

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