The Environmental Benefits of Boxed Water

Everyone is pretty familiar with that shocking commercial that shows us how many plastic water bottles Americans use, enough to stretch around the world over 100 times. As guilty as one might feel about it, it has become a dependency – and as a bad habit, it’s not easily broken.

On top of the waste that is obvious (plastic bottles in the trash), there are the problems with those bottles that don’t come instantly to mind. Plastic bottle production uses huge amounts of oil, not to mention the pollution created in transporting them. While it can sometimes to be difficult to imagine the distant future and how damaging all this plastic is for our environment, what is instantly terrifying are the studies that plastic leaks BPA into the water, which is linked to a variety of health problems, such as breast and prostate cancer and low sperm count.

An obvious fix is to have a reusable, swish bottle. But that isn’t always an opportune option. Boxed water.  75% of the container is made from paper that will not leach dangerous chemicals into the very water you are drinking.  The cartons are shipped unfilled to various retailing-points and filled on demand as needed. According to the company this is reducing transportation costs and environmental impact dramatically.

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