Banning water bottles could be the start of a new era. The United States of America could get rid of bottled water in schools without effort. Bottled water is not essential, so using water fountains and tap water would be painless. If everyone in schools in the U.S. stopped using bottled water for just one year, we could save the Earth. Using bottled water in schools hurts environments, wastes energy, and bottled water companies use tap water. Bottled water is not good for an environment at all. Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, stated that, ¨More than 1 billion plastic water bottles end in California’s landfills each year.¨ Trying to biodegrade all of the trash from one year would take up to 1000 years. Even if bottled water was only
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Gail Hennessey talks about wasting energy, ¨1.5 million barrels of petroleum are used to produce plastic water bottles in the United States each year.¨ If plastic bottles were not allowed to be used in schools, with this intention 250,000 homes could be supplied with electricity for a year. That is wasting resources that can be used to feed the homeless or starving kids in Africa. Bottled water is taking away from the people of the world, and something should be done about it. Companies that sell bottled water are not telling the truth about what is in them. PepsiCo explains their use of a public water source, “If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it’s a reasonable thing to do.” This statement from PepsiCo means that Aquafina, the brand that they own, does not use water from a mountain stream with fresh water. It makes sense to get rid of bottled water, when you can get the same exact water for free. Students should be able to get rid of bottled water and use water fountains. Bottled water should be banned in all of the schools in the USA. Destroying the environment, wasting energy, and using public water sources for their water are all examples of what bottled water does. Bottled water is not necessary, so it should disappear in every
Gail Hennessey talks about wasting energy, ¨1.5 million barrels of petroleum are used to produce plastic water bottles in the United States each year.¨ If plastic bottles were not allowed to be used in schools, with this intention 250,000 homes could be supplied with electricity for a year. That is wasting resources that can be used to feed the homeless or starving kids in Africa. Bottled water is taking away from the people of the world, and something should be done about it. Companies that sell bottled water are not telling the truth about what is in them. PepsiCo explains their use of a public water source, “If this helps clarify the fact that the water originates from public sources, then it’s a reasonable thing to do.” This statement from PepsiCo means that Aquafina, the brand that they own, does not use water from a mountain stream with fresh water. It makes sense to get rid of bottled water, when you can get the same exact water for free. Students should be able to get rid of bottled water and use water fountains. Bottled water should be banned in all of the schools in the USA. Destroying the environment, wasting energy, and using public water sources for their water are all examples of what bottled water does. Bottled water is not necessary, so it should disappear in every