Not to mention that the whole idea of recycling is maybe a tiny baby step in the right direction in the first place. How much energy and waste did you generate making and recycling that bottle? http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/02/bottled_water_w.php
I really have no idea why the bottled water market hasn’t came up with the idea to sell a nice durable bottle that could just be refilled at various locations, gas stations, grocery stores ect… or something like that. Sorry it just seems like a really obvious solution to me. It would be a whole new industry for whoever jumps on it first. Why do we have to make all these bottles into something in the first place? Ok I have t-shirt made out of recycled bottles…great. Well now that the shirt is worn out we might as just well throw it away I guess. So…what progress was made?