Considering the devastation invoked when filling up newly minted plastic vessels with rich, inland aquifers, believe this factor is not 3500 but actually much h

Considering the devastation invoked when filling up newly minted plastic vessels with rich, inland aquifers, believe this factor is not 3500 but actually much higher. >They used something called a “life cycle assessment” which estimates the environmental impact of an item over its entire lifespan. That includes the extraction of raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, use and disposal. Would like to point out that extraction does get more costly over time. Think of oil wells or any other resource, the low-hanging, easy-to-grab fruits are taken first, then the tech to extract must be advanced, then more precarious pursuits in search of resource are undertaken and the ecological devastation is quite a bit more each successive time.