A flood of water bottles.

• Position: Stateline - Brief Article

Pure, natural, bottled water has become the in thing in California as elsewhere, but a problem is bubbling up. The water may be good for the body, but its containers are not. The discarded plastic bottles (more than 1 billion a year, 3 million a day) are flooding landfills and contributing to air pollution when incinerated with regular trash. Only about 16 percent of the plastic water bottles are being recycled in California, even though consumers can now turn them in for...