Overall this is an exciting article. However;
The writers use of a strawman argument to push the bias of bottled water being a bad thing is dubious.

"no-one has proved it is better for us than tap water"

Actually what has been proved is that both the nazi party during WW2 and the CIA in the 1950s discovered by experimentation that fluoride atrophies the pineal gland of the brain. This organ is required for an ability to think for ourselves. Once it is damaged, the individual "is more susceptible to brainwashing".
The use of fluoride in tap water means that the population are dosing themselves with a chemical that is known to create zombis.

Bottled water does not contain fluoride.

Fluoride is not proven to be beneficial for teeth and bones.
I have spent a few years independently researching the pros and cons for this, all the information to back it up is available.
While the writer of this article uses the 'this has not been proved' argument detrimentally toward bottled water, she then uses the same argument in reverse against the plastic bottles themselves. The words 'possible' as in "a possible human carcinogen" and 'potential' as in "potential hormone disruptor" should logically be regarded with the exact same mistrust as "no-one has proved it [bottled water]'s better for us than tap water".

I have traveled extensively throughout southwest england and south wales. I observe that tap water tastes different everywhere. It often tastes of chemicals. When I drink certain brands of bottled water, I do not taste chemicals. Also I feel fantastic, my mind is cleaner, my body is healthier. It takes 6 weeks for the water in our bodies to be replaced. My personal rationale is that since we are 70% made of water, the purity of our own being should be a priority issue.

Whilst it is worrying that perhaps polymers might adversely affect us, at least they cannot be any worse than the chemicals we know are being put into tap water. Also that bottled water makes me feel so much better than tap water; less lethargic, more sharply focused, more easily able to access 'higher spiritual dimensions' for want of a less risque expression.

The recycling issue.
It is up to the individual to recycle everything that passes through our hands. Where Our councils are not adequately recycling the things we throw away, it is up to us to lobby them to improve their recycling & collection facilities. Personally segregating all of our waste material between compost, cardboard, plastic, etc; is the first major step, simply to make the job of trash sifting an easier task.

A huge stockpile of empty plastic bottles that do not deteriorate for 450 years seems to me to be a great resource for building eco~dwellings, which with bottle~cavity walls would be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The approach to sustainable culture and economy is holistic after all.

They are also great for collecting rain water in, as well as preventing wild rabbits from eating my young food plants.

GOOD LUCK IN YOUR PACIFIC SOJOURN DAVID DE ROTHSCHILD!

I wrote to several recycled plastic companies recently and was informed that constructing an ocean going vessel from recycled plastics is a brainless and dangerous idea. I am now forwarding this article to smile-plastics, the company in question who sought to persuade me against my proposals.

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By the way, global warming is happening on mars too, in fact most of the planets in our solar system are affected by the solar electromagnetic acceleration that we are currently experiencing as a peak in the natural cycle every few thousand years.