Continuing our conversation on water choices, Welcome to Part 2: Environmental factors – Recycling.
The first fact: 30% of domestic PET production goes towards bottled water currently.
PET plastic is “down cycled”, never remade into plastic bottles because of concerns over bacteria. The PET pellets are then reused for a number of new items: plastic decking to rubber soles on shoes. Check out the quick video to see the process (how plastic would be recycled in the Matrix).

2007 Recycling Rates (courtesy Container Recycling Institute)

CA
US

Aluminum
79.1%
53.8%

Glass
66.7%
N/A

#1 PET
54.1%
28%

States that have some sort of …