Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends

,; Bouhlel, Zeineb; Köpke, Jimmy; Mina, Mariam; Smakhtin, Vladimir

doi:10.53328/agym7357

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“…The United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health reported that the estimated annual production of PET bottles in 2019 exceeded 600 billion units, equivalent to approximately 24 million tons of postconsumer PET waste. 14 PET is marked with an SPI Code of 1, indicating its recyclability and encouraging consumers to participate in curbside recycling programs. In fact, PET is the most recycled plastic among commodity plastics, with approximately 29% of postconsumer PET waste being recycled in 2018.…”

Section: Commodity Plastics and Their Spi Codesmentioning

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Industrial and Laboratory Technologies for the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste

Chin,

Diao

2024

ACS Catal.

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Synthetic polymers play an indispensable role in modern society, finding applications across various sectors ranging from packaging, textiles, and consumer products to construction, electronics, and industrial machinery. Commodity plastics are cheap to produce, widely available, and versatile to meet diverse application needs. As a result, millions of metric tons of plastics are manufactured annually. However, current approaches for the chemical recycling of postconsumer plastic waste, primarily based on pyrolysis, lag in efficiency compared to their production methods. In recent years, significant research has focused on developing milder, economically viable methods for the chemical recycling of commodity plastics, which involves converting plastic waste back into monomers or transforming it into other valuable chemicals. This Perspective examines both industrial and cutting-edge laboratory-scale methods contributing to recent advancements in the field of chemical recycling.

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Section: Commodity Plastics and Their Spi Codesmentioning

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Industrial and Laboratory Technologies for the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste

Chin,

Diao

2024

ACS Catal.

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“…21 Over the past decade, the bottled water market saw an impressive growth of 73%, with consumption expected to rise from 350 billion liters to 460 billion liters by 2030. 22 Countries such as Singapore and Australia have large annual per capita consumption of 1129 and 504 L, respectively, making bottled water consumption a significant exposure source if contaminants are present. Therefore, in this work, we seek to evaluate the occurrence of selected polymer additives in bottled water samples from different sources and types.…”

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Polymer Additives to Go? Occurrence of the Rubber Additive 1,3-Diphenylguanidine (DPG) in Bottled Water

Marques dos Santos,

Snyder

2023

Environ. Sci. Technol. Lett.

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The occurrence of polymer additives such as 1,3diphenylguanidine (DPG) has been recently reported in different human samples, including urine and plasma. It has also been widely reported in many sources of drinking water and tap water. Here, we present the first comprehensive assessment of the occurrence of DPG in bottled water samples. A large-volume direct injection LC-MS/MS method was used for the analysis of polymer additives (DPG, DTG, and 6PPD) and six transformation products in different bottled water samples. The use of a 100 μL direct injection LC-MS/MS method enabled detection and quantification limits as low as 0.01 and 0.05 ng/L, respectively, with no interference of potential contaminants from materials commonly used in the laboratory. Out of 63 different samples from 15 different countries, DPG had a detection frequency of 40%, with samples above the limit of quantification having a median concentration of 0.76 ng/L (maximum of 7.4 ng/L). Although the contribution to human exposure from drinking bottled water could explain little of the observed urine concentrations previously reported, the impact from bottled water consumption cannot be neglected and was estimated to be on the same order of magnitude as that of drinking tap water.

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(Un)intended spillovers of green government policies: The case of plastic regulations

van Doorn,

Risselada,

Rizio

et al. 2024

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

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Governments enact various regulations to decrease the use of plastic. This raises the question of whether the effectiveness of such measures is restricted to the realm of the plastic products being regulated, or whether and how it ‘spills over’ on to the use of other plastic products. Leveraging scanner and survey data across 22 countries, the authors show that a ban or a charge on plastic bags strengthens descriptive social norms to avoid plastic, which in turn curbs the purchasing and use of plastic bottles, as well as of other plastics. Yet there is also a dark side to charging consumers for plastic bags, as a negative cueing effect can lower concerns about plastic pollution and make consumers less vigilant about their use of other plastic products. Taken together, this research shows that government regulation aimed at changing small common behaviors potentially has a much larger impact via spillover effects.

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Global Bottled Water Industry: A Review of Impacts and Trends

Cited by 11 publications

References 92 publications

Industrial and Laboratory Technologies for the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste

Industrial and Laboratory Technologies for the Chemical Recycling of Plastic Waste

Polymer Additives to Go? Occurrence of the Rubber Additive 1,3-Diphenylguanidine (DPG) in Bottled Water

(Un)intended spillovers of green government policies: The case of plastic regulations

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