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3 pages in length. Paying for water was as foreign a concept fifty years ago as traveling by jet-propelled body packs is now in the twenty-first century, however, the quality of today's tap water has declined to the point where bottled water has become a safer and more palatable option that consumers have responded to over the past three decades. Yet the environmental disadvantages of choosing bottled water over tap have been proven quite significant due to the necessary steps required to reach consumers. As Jungbluth (2005) found, it is not so much the content - as in carbonated or plain - that makes a greater environmental impact as it is the manufacturing and delivery aspects. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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the point where bottled water has become a safer and more palatable option that consumers have responded to over the past three decades. Yet the environmental disadvantages of choosing
bottled water over tap have been proven quite significant due to the necessary steps required to reach consumers. As Jungbluth (2005) found, it is not so much the content
- as in carbonated or plain - that makes a greater environmental impact as it is the manufacturing and delivery aspects. Plain drinking water which is bottled, transported and
sold like bottled mineral water doesnt provide for any ecological advantage as it also necessitates packaging and transportation by road or rail (Jungbluth, 2005). When analyzing the life cycle
of bottled water, each component of the entire process must be taking into account as it compares to the same for tap; in virtually every situation - refrigerated, not refrigerated,
carbonated, not carbonated - tap water was a markedly better environmental choice than its bottled counterpart. Glass bottles may be more advantageous over plastic (PET) from a number of
vantage points (taste, recycling), yet it adds to the detrimental impact on the environment due to its heavier composition requiring more power to transport. Moreover, it is a lesser
threat than its plastic counterpart when reaching its final resting place in a local landfill. The "cradle to grave" aspect of a life cycle assessment (LCA) incorporates the overall
process of in the existence of that commodity; as such, the author is remiss to omit the environmental impact of this last stop on the LCA journey to the waste
disposal site, a location where the nonbiodegradable water bottle will spend an untold number of decades maintaining its original composition yet dispersing toxic chemical compounds into the earth.
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