Is the recycled plastic that makes up our water and soda bottles an effective long-term solution to waste reduction? A study from Brunel University London reports that drinks packaged in recycled PET bottles can contain more chemicals than those bottled in new, virgin PET. With 480 billion plastic bottles sold each year, according to Euromonitor International, it looked as if we had started to find an answer to the problem of plastic pollution, especially since less than 14% of these plastic bottles are recycled. It is therefore not surprising that many brands are making the use of recycled pl…
