Water's Edge

Water's Edge

Nottawasaga Bay, Lake Huron

The paradox of our relationship to water.

In Ontario, 1 BILLION plastic water bottles are sent to landfill every year.

Stop Polluting the Planet with Disposable Plastic Water Bottles

Bottled water is almost 2,000 times more energy intensive to produce than tap water

Plastic bottles can take 450 years or more to break down and decompose. Some estimates push that number closer to 1,000 years.

Researchers recently tested bottled water for micro plastic particles and found that 93% of the water tested contained some sort of microplastic, including polypropylene, polystyrene, nylon and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

Tap water is strictly regulated by Health Canada and the provinces and territories, whereas bottled water is not.

It takes 3 times the water to make the bottle as it does to fill it.

1 gallon of bottled water costs approximately 2,000x more than the cost of a gallon of tap water.

The amount of bottled water purchased every week in the U.S. alone could circle the globe five times.

As of 2017, the global bottled water market was worth $198.5 billion, set to reach $300 billion by 2024.

82% in Ontario want an end to bottled water extraction permits.

1 MILLION plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute - which breaks down to 20,000 plastic bottles a second - and that number will jump another 20% by 2021.

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