PepsiCo bottles tap water, and the bottles end up in the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge

[Lobster Martini]

The Darby Creek passes through the John Heinz Wildlife Refuge in Tinicum, Pennsylvania. It is a terrific place for bird watching. This week, we pulled an incredible pile of debris out of the creek. The disturbing part is that we were working within a small area—less than 100 yards—the same area that had been cleaned earlier this month—and we collected enough rubbish to fill a trailer and the bed of a Fish and Wildlife Commission pickup, and could easily have kept going except that the tide was unfavorable at the time. The vast majority of the rubbish was empty and half-empty bottles of water. So, in effect, PepsiCo Inc. is bottling tap water, and the plastic bottles float down Darby Creek to the wildlife refuge. -- LM

PepsiCo Inc. will spell out that its Aquafina bottled water is made with tap water, a concession to the growing environmental and political opposition to the bottled water industry.

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"Concerns about the bottled-water industry, and increasing corporate control of water, are growing across the country," said Gigi Kellett, director of the "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign, which aims to encourage people to drink tap water.

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Critics charge the bottled water industry adds plastic to landfills, uses too much energy by producing and shipping bottles across the world and undermines confidence in the safety and cleanliness of public water supplies, all while much of the world's population is without access to clean water.

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