To give a quick background, plastic watered bottles are made from a material called Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) which is made from petroleum.
Plastic bottles have a lot of disadvantages in terms of affecting the environment. The manufacturing of …show more content…
For example, in 2006, the transportation of plastic water bottles from New York to Western Europe resulted in the release of 3,800 tons of Carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere and also according to the statistics it took 2.5 million tons of Carbon dioxide to produce, transport in the U.S. To explain the environmental impact, Carbon dioxide is one of the greenhouse gas which means that this gas is one of the main reasons of global warming which leads to the warming of the planet. The reason of global warming is because the dangerous gases cause to form a hole in the ozone layer which protects the Earth from ultraviolet radiation and heat. Once the hole is formed in the ozone layer, there would be no barrier to stop the radiation or heat. Global warming has a lot of drastic effects on the environment such as climate change, acid rains, droughts, and a rise in sea levels. Global warming is a chain reaction. To demonstrate, when global warming is happening at a rapid pace, it can heat up the …show more content…
The use of plastic water bottles is the main reason for climate change, global warming, ground water contamination loss of natural resources and the death of sea creatures. The Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago but the human was not born until 2.5 million years ago. The Earth has a lot of history than human does. The Earth has given us a place to live. People’s duty is to live in that place, not to destroy it. Humans should keep the environment safe so that later generation can live peacefully but if they start destroying it, later generations are going to suffer. The job of this essay is to demonstrate the affect that plastic bottles have on the environment. The job of humans is to protect the Earth because it is giving the people a place to live. In order to protect the environment, plastic bottles should be abolished. Finally, humans need environment but the environment doesn’t need