Bottled water is taking up way to much space here in America. Wherever I go, I see bottled water, and I bet you every one I have seen went straight in the trash. America wastes all sorts of other products just to make a bottle that is most likely used for one day then tossed into the trash for good. Although we can save all this time, money and other products from being wasted by recycling, America chooses not to further the recycling process. Which leaves us at destroying the environment by this steady production of mass bottled water, even though clean water could be provided to everyone on earth for an outlay of 1.7 billion dollars a year beyond current spending on water projects, according to the International Water Management Institution.
According to best-selling author, Norm Schriever, there are 50 billion water bottles consumed every year, about 30 billion of them in the US, which means America consumes 60 percent of the world’s water bottles, even though were 4.5 percent of the world’s population. Not to mention to manufacture these water bottles it takes three times the volume of water to produce one bottle of water than it does to fill it. 17 million barrels of oil are used each year to manufacture these water bottles. This is …show more content…
Don’t get me wrong if you walked in to my house you will see that my family are bottled water users all the way, but after doing all this research and getting real results of what our bottled water is doing to our earth and our society makes reality set in. There are four adults and one baby in my house and we go through at least a 24 pack of bottled waters in a week. To maybe help change the results of the earth, I will try to lower the amount of bottled water usage and try to collect the bottles to recycle
According to best-selling author, Norm Schriever, there are 50 billion water bottles consumed every year, about 30 billion of them in the US, which means America consumes 60 percent of the world’s water bottles, even though were 4.5 percent of the world’s population. Not to mention to manufacture these water bottles it takes three times the volume of water to produce one bottle of water than it does to fill it. 17 million barrels of oil are used each year to manufacture these water bottles. This is …show more content…
Don’t get me wrong if you walked in to my house you will see that my family are bottled water users all the way, but after doing all this research and getting real results of what our bottled water is doing to our earth and our society makes reality set in. There are four adults and one baby in my house and we go through at least a 24 pack of bottled waters in a week. To maybe help change the results of the earth, I will try to lower the amount of bottled water usage and try to collect the bottles to recycle