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Effects of bottled water on society, the economy and the environment
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How much bottled water do you drink? Wouldn’t surprise you to learn that 28 billion bottles of water are consumed in America each year. It takes 700-1000 years for plastic bottles to begin the decomposition process. My solution is the recycling program will encourage people to recycle more and reduce waste, especially bottled water, it will create less pollution. My solution will impact the environment by increasing recycling. Centralia could help the environment by making recycling easier. Water bottles make up 3 billion pounds of waste a year in landfills. Only 1 out of every 5 water bottles are recycled. The production of water bottles requires 17 million barrels of oil. What if we made a goal to recycle more, create less waste, and less
...er than the bottled water available for purchase. Also the amount of energy wasted in producing the plastic bottles is not necessary because water is available from every tap in most households.
For ever water bottle made, non-renewable resources are wasted to produce an unnecessary luxury. For the bottled water Americans enjoy, seventeen million barrels of oil are used (excluding transportation), which could fuel more than 1.3 million cars for a year. Most water is imported and exported from places that are thousands of miles away, like Fiji. Although oil is controversial in nature, for every one liter of water produced, three liters are used; the excess water wasted can supply clean water to the world’s poorest countries. Moreover, the energy used in bottle production can supply energy to over 190,000 homes. The resources that can be replaced by ceasing the production of water bottles can solve many global problems faced by a growing population.
The reason for which I chose this topic is that I am personally very engaged with the issue of saving the planet and not polluting. My school has many water bottles lying around, and as they are plastic, they will take an average of 450 years to decompose if no-one picked them up and recycled them. It
Promote social responsibility; recycle scrap water bottles and use recycled plastic in the production of our bottles
Specific Purpose: To persuade my audience to drink more water and present ways for them to drink water, so they can stay healthy.
Water is a basic necessity to every living creature big and small. Access to clean drinkable water is paramount to human and animal existence but whether it is pollution or poverty access to this basic need for some is limited. “For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.” According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization 783 million people in the world do not have access to clean water, with this many people not having access approximately 6 to 8 million people die each year from water related diseases and disasters. To put it into perspective, 1 out of every 5 deaths worldwide of a child under the age of 5 years old is because of a water related-disease.
Bottled water negatively affects the environment in many ways. “Of the 36 billion bottles sold in 2006, only one-fifth of the bottles were recycled.” This means 28.8 billion bottles end up in landfills; which contribute to pollution that leads to dangerous greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. I think that pollution can harm humans’ health and cause a dramatic decrease in population. If water bottles keep adding pollution in the air, I think bottled water will be a major factor in global warming, and the Earth’s future will not be in good hands. Also, water bottles hurt the environment by removing water from groundwater (which tastes the same as tap water). When the water removed from spring water or also known as artesian well is put into bottled water, it is filtered to remove any unnecessary bacteria or chemicals. Except the helpful nutrients that are also found in groundwater are also removed by the filter; ...
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which oversees the bottled-water industry, Americans drink more than eight billiongallons of bottled water each year. Most of that water is packaged in plastic bottles.The EPA estimates that plastics such as those used to make water bottles make up nearly 13 percent of our trash. An industry watchdog group reports that it takes nearly eighteen million barrels of oil to make the amount of plastic needed to meet Americans'thirst for bottled water. That's about the same amount of oil that a million vehicles use in one year. Oil is a nonrenewable resource—once it's gone, it's gone. Worse yet, the vehicles used to move bottled water from place to place release harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Perhaps more alarming is that people recycle fewer than 20 percent of their empty bottles. Most emptybottles are tossed in the trash. From there, they end up in a landfill, where they cause further environmental damage.
Bam! Bam! Bam! Have you ever hear this deaf- making, irritating sound from water bottle flipping? Hearing this noise in schools and houses, is so annoying for millions of people. Even some schools banned bottle flipping. Bam! I get it why some adults and kids don’t like this sound and I don’t get why you get so happy when it landed. That’s why I want to talk to my friends and kids, to not flip water bottles anywhere from public to private places.
Water is essential for humanity’s survival, and even though the world is largely covered by water, only a small percentage is only usable for human consumption. Approximately, on average, 120,000 gallons of water are used annually for a single-family household (Galbraith). This alarming number could be reduced dramatically for the efforts of water conserving and lower water bill prices for families and subsequently saving money that could be used for other expenses. Thus, conserving water would prove beneficial and advantageous to not just Texas, but for everyone else as well. Although environmental policies have been not as popular with Congress and the state legislature, it is still an important problem to consider since there are only a limited amount of resources for public use, such as water.
Water bottles are made of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics that don’t biodegrade, but they are completely recyclable. PETs photo degrade, they break down into smaller fragments over time. These fragments absorb all the toxins that pollute waterways, contaminate soil, and sicken animals (which are then consumed). The plastic trash also absorbs organic pollutants such as BPA. They take centuries to decompose while sitting in landfills, amounting to billions of environmentally poisonous time bombs.
Most people around the world are water bottle drinkers, but the larger majority is guilty of wasting the plastic container which holds the purified water that we all pay extra for when it would be cheaper and more environmentally friendly to drink the water from our own faucet. What do you do with your empty plastic water bottle? What most people do not know that their plastic water bottle tells a story. On one single bottle of water you are able to find out what type of plastic your purified convenient bottle of water is housed in and the level of recyclability it is. Just because plastic is recyclable, this does not mean it always happens.
Disposable plastic water bottles are sometimes thought to be an intelligent choice; however, research and trends have shown that is not the case. Plastic water bottles contribute to global warming because it takes so much fossil fuel to make the water bottles and to transport them. Twenty bottles of Fiji
Water is something my family and I use everyday. Not only do we use water for drinking, but for taking a shower, brushing my teeth, doing the dishes, washing my clothes, etc. Since water is used so often throughout the day, it ends up being a resource that is easy to take for granted. Also, it is also a resource that is easy to waste without really thinking about it.
A majority of the trash I’m throwing away is plastic water bottles. The reasonable solution to this would