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Bottled water is not evil.  Sure, it’s gotten a bad rap in the past few years…everything from plastic bottles taking over our landfills to causing cancer.  In theory, those things are true, and yes, bottled water can be frowned upon in that regard.

Here’s the upside…keep bottled water out of extremely high temperatures, for instance, your car.  Some scientist believe that the plastic can omit toxins into the water when the bottles are extremely hot, thus, perhaps, being the cause of breast cancer.  Simply keep your bottles out of the heat and the plastic is otherwise harmless.

About the landfills…Our landfills are being polluted with millions of water bottles.  Since the bottles take an estimated 600-1000 years to decompose, it’s an absolutely horrible idea to throw the bottles into the trash.  Sadly, only 10% of plastic water bottles are recycled in the US.  That means a whopping 90% are going straight to the landfills.  It’s so easy to recycle.  If you don’t…you should start.

At the end of the day, bottled water is not evil.  It can be an evil if you aren’t properly disposing of the bottles and you are letting them sit in a car all day omitting toxins into the water.   As long as you follow the rules, bottled water can be a very, very good thing.