Peter Gleick, President of the Pacific Institute and author of Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water, was on GMA today to talk about how the bottled water industry is a sham. It’s a short video but definitely hits on all the good points and it’s great to get that type of coverage and exposure. Check out the video here: GMA Bottled & Sold

Story of Stuff has put together a great video detailing the story of bottle water. The video is a quick view while being both informative and entertaining.

Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se12y9hSOM0

The video below shows a computer animation comparing the US rate of plastic water bottle recycling (approx. 100 bottles/second) to the nonrecycled rate (approx. 845 bottles/second; see image) for 2005.

This computer animation was made to raise awareness about bottled water, and its surprisingly poor recycling rates. Since its recent popularization, bottled water (in all its flavors) has become ironically one of the most consumed, yet least recycled beverages. For example, it is estimated that in 2005 alone approximately 30 billion plastic water bottles were purchased in the US, with only about 12% recycled (in part due to out-dated deposit laws), and the remaining 25 billion bottles landfilled, littered or incinerated.

From MSNBC:

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