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“The bottled water industry is worth
more than 170 billion with Canadians purchasing over 3.4 billion litres of
bottled water each year” (Stastna). As consumers have become more health
conscious, water has replaced pop and other sugary drinks and become the drink
of choice. Although bottled water companies have tried to cut down on the
amount of plastic they use, the industry “is still responsible for one fifth of
one percent of landfill waste.” (Stastna). Each year the bottled water industry "produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste" (Baskind). People do not stop to think about their waste and unfortunately do not consider the impact of each bottle of water. "Over 80% of
plastic water bottles are thrown away and never end up in recycling facilities”
(Baskind). Many bottles that end up in landfills take hundreds of years to
decompose, while other bottles and other compound waste never decompose as once
buried in a landfill they do not have the proper amount of oxygen, heat and
light to break down.
