A UK website covering business news reports a backlash developing over the bottled water industry. For years bottled water enjoyed popularity as a healthy option over soda. Now, however, people have begun to voice concerns over the environmental costs involved with bottled water. A billion dollars a year is lost due to bottles that are not recycled. Plus, the industry uses 17 million barrels of oil to make the bottles. A group called Ban the Bottle has criticized the industry.

Key Takeaways:

• Bottled water consumption is on the rise in America. More bottled water is consumed then soda.
• The amount of wasted plastic is causing environmental an economic harm.
• Social push back is forcing bottling companies to evaluate new ways to encourage recycling.

“more than $1 billion of plastic is wasted every year in the form of 38 billion unrecycled water bottles”

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/bottled-water-is-the-new-smoking-2017-4?r=UK&IR=T