Summary
Green campaigners have called for Welsh consumers to stop drinking bottled water. They say the carbon footprint of producing and transporting water, and the waste left by plastic bottles in particular, is too high an environmental price to pay. Instead, they have urged consumers to rely on the humbler delights of tap water. page 3
THE Welsh economy is sitting on a goldmine of untapped business ventures in our universities, a report has concluded. An Assembly- commissioned review team has urged the public sector to rise to the challenge of turning academic research into wealth. One member of the team said, "You can go into any institution and find cracking ideas, which are often published as papers, but then go no further.": FROM PAGE 3: Gulp! Eco campaigners want users of bottled water to ditch world's fastest growing drink:Environmental campaigners are calling for Welsh consumers to ditch the world's fastest growing drink - bottled water. In some parts of the country sales of bottled water are now outstripping those of Coca-Cola, but environmentalists are urging consumers to take their refreshment direct from the tap. They say the carbon footprint left from producing and transporting bottled water, both in glass or plastic bottles, around the UK cannot be justified when the tap-delivered alternative is perfectly adequate. The call comes after city officials in New York launched a campaign to persuade people to abandon bottled water. Some of the city's restaurants have already taken bottled water, which is the world's fastest-growing drinks sector worth pounds 1.2bn a year, off their menus.See the full content of this document
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Call to Ditch Bottled Water
US critics of the industry say four in five plastic water bottles end up in landfill and the production process is environmentally damaging.
But the Bottled Water Information Office (BWIO), which represents the industry in the UK, says both the glass and plastic packaging used in the business can be recycled. It says mor...See the full content of this document
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