Tapped Documentary Analysis

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The documentary “Tapped” sheds some light on the dangers of bottled water. One of my favorite points the documentary talks about is how the thousands and thousands of plastic water bottles are affecting us and our world. Yes, while bottled water may be convenient for us humans who are always going and going, it's not very convenient for the rest of the world.
Our environment was not grown with plastic. Plastic is not nature based, therefore it is not organic, meaning it can’t decompose, or give anything to the environment except pollution, death, and trash. Water bottles all over the beach or in the ocean or in your park or forest is not cool. It trashes up the place, makes it look dirty, makes our world look messy and like we can’t take care
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Those chemicals get in that water, contaminating the water. That contaminated water is now considered “clean” drinking water, and then is put into plastic bottles. Plastic bottles are also made with chemicals, and those chemical residues on the plastic can also mix into that water. But then that water is sold. To thousands of buyers. Human buyers. And then years later, this buyer is diagnosed with some disease that has ties to a chemical that the buyer had to much contact with or had too much of that chemical in their body, and that chemical is directly tied to water in water bottles. You may think, “Oh, I’m good. I don’t drink bottled water, I drink tap water, so I’m safe.” Wrong. Those chemicals that are in those water bottles, well, they’re in those factories, and those factories dispose of those chemicals, and those chemicals get into the ground, or in the rivers and water sources that provide your tap water. So, no, your not safe. Then, they process that water some more trying to clean it, over and over and over, the process repeating over and over. but they have more control over the bottle water, so they tell you bottled water is safer, so you buy their products. It’s crazy how the system

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