Moreover, PET plastic
bottles use less energy, generate less solid waste and create fewer greenhouse gas emissions than glass bottles or aluminum cans.
Not exact matches
Recycling packaging materials also makes good business sense as containers produced with recycled material
use 95 percent
less energy compared with
bottles made from raw materials, says Eric Louis - Seize, market analyst at Hawkesbury, Ontario - based Montebello Packaging.
It can be seen as a survival instinct as more
energy is
used when breastfeeding, whereas
less effort is required for larger volumes with a
bottle.
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Bottled Water — Go Back to the Tap / Go Solar / Hang Your Laundry Out to Dry / Ethical and Easy Lawns / Buy Clean
Energy / Eat
Less Beef / Home
Energy Audit / Searching the Web (
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Environmental activists argue tap water
uses 300 times
less energy to create and distribute than
bottled water and produces much
less waste.
It decreases the need for raw materials which helps to save
energy, for instance it takes 75 %
less energy to make a plastic
bottle from recycled plastic compared with
using «virgin» materials.
One dollar from every
bottle sold is donated to the Sustainable Acai Project, and a special distillation process
uses 200 %
less energy than traditional methods.