Hydro+Logic was an installation at the Columbia Waterfront District's Urban Meadow in Brooklyn. Intended to continue the dialogue concerning the wasted resources of bottled plastic water, the project arranged thousands of discarded bottles into an area of respite.
The vast majority of all plastics ever produced still exist, somewhere. Consider your ecological footprint when you drink bottled water versus tap:
The plastic water bottle that takes just 3 minutes to drink can take up to a 1000 years to biodegrade.
We pollute nearly 7x more water to make the plastic bottle than it actually holds.
Bottling increases water extraction in areas near plants, leading to water shortages that affect local consumers and farmers.
About 1/3 of tested* bottled water contained levels of contamination, including synthetic organic chemicals, bacteria and arsenic.
Bottled water produces up to 1.5 million tons of plastic waste per year (47 million gallons of oil) and over 80% are NOT recycled.
Corporate bottlers like Dasani (Coca Cola) and Fiji are stripping developing nations of their self-determination, environment and natural resources.
*Results published by the National Resources Defense Council after a 4-year study of the bottled water industry.
