Polietileno tereftalato o como se le conoce por sus siglas en inglés: PET (nada que ver con "mascota").
Hace mucho tiempo que predico contra el consumo de refrescos, sodas o como quieran llamarle, pero el hecho de DEMOSTRAR que perjudica la salud no es razón suficiente para que el individuo haga consciencia. Por esto les pido que, si van a seguir dañándose, al menos lo hagan con productos que no se contengan en este tipo de envases. Ya que, como buen humano no es muy relevante si usted se daña a si mismo, sin embargo, SI ES RELEVANTE si daña al medio ambiente.
Consumir PET es equivalente a decir: "me valen madres las próximas generaciones".
1. Reusing 1 glass bottle will prevent the purchase and consumption of more than 240 plastic bottles every year
2. One plastic bottle will take more than 450 years to completely break down (that’s 25 generations!)
3. This year, more than 250 billion pounds of plastic will be created with very little of that production ever being recycled – that’s about 37 pounds of new plastic created for every single person on the planet
4. The number of disposable plastic water bottles consumed in the US in 2010 could fill 849,941 school buses (double the number of school buses on the road today)
5. The U.S is the largest consumer of plastic bottled water in the world
6. Annually, Americans consume more 8.6 billion gallons of bottled water each year
7. The average U.S. citizen consumes more than 21 gallons of water every year
8. The price of bottled water is up to 10,000 times the cost of tap water
9. Only 10% of the cost of bottled water goes to the actual water, the other 90% goes to the packaging, transportation and marketing
10. More than 75% of plastic water bottles are never recycled, they’re simply thrown away
11. PET (plastic) water bottles generate more than 121 million tons of waste each year
12. Manufacturing & filling the plastic water bottles, on average wastes 30-40% of the water involved in the process
13. It takes 47 million gallons of oil to create plastic water bottles each year
14. Every year in the U.S. in excess of 38 billion plastic bottles end up in landfills
15. 15 billion pounds of plastic are produced in the U.S. every year & only 1 billion pounds are recycled
16. Every year at least 1 million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals & sea turtles die when they entangle
themselves in plastic pollution or ingest plastics
17. In the U.S. 1,500 plastic water bottles are consumed every second. 70% of those will never be recycled
18. 90% of the trash in the ocean is from plastic
19. At least 40% of bottled water is tap water
20. Plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting
21. 90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle
itself
22. 80% of plastic bottles are not recycled
23. 38 million plastic bottles go to the dump per year in America from bottled water (not including soda)
24. 24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles
25. The average American consumes 167 bottles of water a year
26. Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water
27. Bottled water is the second most popular beverage in the United States.
