beer (table 1). The only beverage category with larger sales is carbonated soft drinks (CSDs). Furthermore, per-capita bottled water consumption is growing, while per-capita sales of milk and CSDs are falling (Martinez 2007). In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration ...
requirements from production to point of sale. 2.1. Energy required to manufacture plastic bottles Bottled water is sold in containers ranging from small 8 ounce or half liter containers popular in school lunches to the multi- gallon bottles used in home and office water coolers. The ...