A small, wonderful news. Australia is, where the town of Bundanoon has decided to ban bottled water. He claims to be the first in the world to do so.
They will drink water from public fountains, as a public fountain in Monterotondo that provides micro-filtered water still or sparkling. The difference is that Monterodondo did not ban bottled water: Bundanoon sì. Do you have an idea of how people save the environment?
When you have available drinking water and an aqueduct pluricontrollata, I think bottled water is really pointless. Yet the Italians are among the biggest consumers of bottled water in planetary. Almost 192 liters per person per year in 2005 (the most recent data); were 160 liters in 2000.
A foolish thing because first you have to use water, Oil and energy to produce plastic bottles, disposable. To build a plastic bottle it takes four gallons of water.
And the oil? I calculated that in 2004 the production of bottles for water consumed by Italians took about 7 million barrels of oil. Could be more usefully employed elsewhere: I agree.
Then bottled water is transported: gasoline consumption, production of pollution. And finally disposed of the waste bottles vano: I do not know if in Australia have the problem of incinerators, greedy as they are plastic, in fact undermine any serious attempt to recycling.
A Bundanoon, located about 150 km from Sydney, they have taken another route. In 2500 people, overwhelmingly, have decided to dispense bottled water. The State of New South Wales followed suit, prohibiting the purchase of bottled water to government offices.
