Where bottled water's carbon comes from
0.32
kg CO₂e / kg
58% is the bottle
🧴 The bottle58%
🚚 Transport36%
💧 The water6%
A litre of bottled water (≈ 1 kg).
Water itself is almost free, carbon-wise. Put it in a plastic bottle and truck it across the country and most of the footprint is the bottle and the transport. Tap water is roughly a thousand times lighter.
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