Australian’s consume around 250 million litres of bottled water each year. It takes 3.4 megajoules of energy to make a typical 1-litre plastic bottle. Drinking water out of the tap only requires 0.2 megajoules.

While some of these plastic bottles are recycled, many are not and end up in landfill. Check out the clip below. It poses some really interesting questions, including why would you pay 2000 times the price for bottled water over tap water!