Almost daily you can find a story in Great Lakes media about somebody promoting a business or event by throwing water we used to drink from the tap inside a plastic bottle and selling or giving it away. Here's an example from Michigan today:
http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-16/109085319241300.xml
It sounds harmless enough and in most cases probably is.
But what if we're bottling this water and it ends up in large quantities outside the Great Lakes Basin? And how much plastic waste is generated?