Table 1. Amounts of consumed bottled drinking water and associated PET wastes produced in Iran .

Year	Consumed bottled water (tons)	Consumed bottled water (10 9 L)	Number of the used 0.5 L bottles (10 6 )	Number of the used 1.5 L bottles (10 6 )	PET Wastes associated with bottled water use (tons)	Population (10 6 )	Bottled drinking water consumption (L/ capita-year)	Produced PET bottle Wastes (g/capita-year)
1962	1768	0.0017	2.12	0.47	54.93	22.80	0.07	2.40
1975	2668	0.0026	3.20	0.71	82.89	32.81	0.08	2.52
1987	11678	0.011	14.01	3.11	362.8	50.68	0.23	7.15
2000	26478	0.026	31.77	7.06	822.58	64.04	0.41	12.84
2001	27,278	0.027	32.73	7.27	847.44	65.08	0.42	13.02
2002	29,918	0.029	35.90	7.98	929.45	66.13	0.45	14.05
2003	60,958	0.060	73.15	16.26	1893.76	67.21	0.91	28.18
2004	83,198	0.083	99.84	22.19	2584.68	68.29	1.22	37.85
2005	156,020	0.156	187.22	41.61	4847.03	69.35	2.25	69.89
2006	102,181	0.102	122.62	27.25	3174.43	70.50	1.45	45.03
2007	294,039	0.294	352.85	78.41	9134.82	71.13	4.13	128.43
2008	648,532	0.648	778.24	172.94	20147.71	71.99	9.01	279.85
2009	981,930	0.981	1178.32	261.85	30505.31	72.87	13.47	418.6
2010	1,242,212	1.242	1490.65	331.26	38591.37	74.20	16.74	520.07
2011	1,544,171	1.544	1853.01	411.78	47972.24	75.15	20.55	638.36
2012	1,827,657	1.827	2193.19	487.38	56779.21	76.12	24.01	745.93
2013	2,560,966	2.560	3073.16	682.92	79560.68	77.10	32.22	1031.9
2014	3,226,135	3.226	3871.36	860.30	100225.27	78.10	41.33	1283.37
2015	3,868,711	3.868	4642.45	1031.66	120187.95	79.10	48.91	1519.38