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Published on Monday, December 24, 2007
By Mark Boslet
SAN JOSE - Drinking a bottle of water might seem innocent enough, but each bottle has a downside many people overlook - a contribution to global warming.
That's because bottles create carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas, when they are made, trucked to a store and disposed of in a landfill or recycled. Their impact can quickly add up.
"Bottled water is an energy-intensive luxury for Americans," said Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental think tank in Oakland "It's certainly much less necessary than the other things we use energy for."
Last year, Americans consumed 8.3 billion gallons of bottled water, or the equivalent of 27.6 gallons a person, according to the Beverage Marketing Corp., a New York-based market research firm. Just making the bottles to hold all the water produced more than 2.5 million tons of CO2, the Pacific Institute calculates
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