The document discusses issues with plastic water bottles including their large carbon footprint to produce and transport, most ending up in landfills rather than being recycled, and their production requiring unsustainable amounts of water from aquifers. Plastic bottles also take hundreds of years to degrade in nature.

1. CHAPTER - Environment
Environment
• The carbon footprint is enormous
• Broken brittle bottles…find their way into landfills (less than 40% are
recycled)
• Gas and diesel fuel requirements to transport heavy full bottles?
• It removes water from aquifers and springs at an unsustainable rate
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• 650 million plastic water bottles are thrown into landfills in Ontario alone
• Plastic takes over 300 years to degrade in nature.
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