Bottled water booming despite worries over waste

Environmental campaigner Hemantha Withanage is adamant that the purchase of plastic-bottled water should be discouraged.

"Damage from plastics is irreversible," the chair of Friends of the Earth International tells the BBC.

"Once fragmented into microplastics, it pollutes all of the ecosystem including the oceans and the air we breathe, with no way to recover them."