Even clear-looking water can be infested with bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms. A filtered water bottle doesn't just protect against microorganisms, it can also remove contaminants like ...

"The evidence is clear - plastic water bottles are simply not recycled again and again to become new bottles in Europe," said Rosa Pritchard, plastics lawyer at ClientEarth. "A '100%' recycling ...

Tests on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic. In the largest investigation of its kind, 250 bottles bought in nine different ...

Clear plastic water bottles made of polyethylene tetraphthalate (PET), a polyester, were designed in the 1980s to be recycled that way. But now the volume of polyester plastics is "minuscule ...