Bottle It Up

A Ban on Water Bottles In the article ‘’ A Ban on Water Bottles: A way to bolster the University’s image’’ Amanda Jacobowitz discusses the ban of water bottle sales in her campus. The University of Washington has arranged an accession to ban water bottles over the usage of plastic. Water should be a product available at any campus for dehydration. Having an ecofriendly environment can change people’s perspective on how much plastic is being withered. The amount of water usage it takes to make…

water. Water is needed in our lives but it needs to be filtered correctly.“Americans drank 8 billion gallons of bottled water. Another study in 2010 suggested that people spend between $50 and $100 billion on bottled water each year.” (Gauri S.) Bottle water is very popular in America. We spend more money on bottled water than tap water…

purchase I made in a store was for water at my local super market. With the New Year approaching it was one of my goals to drink more water for I was looking to buy a couple cases of water to stock up on. I went into Stop & Shop and right when I walked in there was a display of Poland spring water all stacked up and with a huge sign displaying the brand name and sale price. Stop & Shop had promoted the cases of water so you could immediately see them as you walked through the doors. It was a…

“Bottled Insanity” by Michael I. Niman is a very well written opinion regarding the usage of palstic water bottles. This text spefcifically uses the water bottle manufacturer, FIJI, as the main target in this argmuent. His main claim is that production of palstic water bottles hurt the enviroment. He tries to bring awareness to the hidden reprecussions of producing plastic water bottles for consumption. Although it seems like a good idea, Niman points out the faults in this sytem of…

plastic water bottles for many different reasons. Some reasons are for health environment and more, but is the ban worth it? I believe that states should start banning plastic water bottles. My fisrt reason I think we should ban plastic water bottles,even though people are recycling, it isn’t enough for how much plastic water bottles we buy, The author, Katy Steinmetz wrote, “""[The bottles] are not being thrown away … They are being recycled." While that's not true of all bottles in the Bay…

Waunakee should ban water bottles. There are many websites about bottled water being bad. According to Christiana Z. Peppard Ph.D. , Water bottles are not sustainable. In one week people throw away about 35 million empty water bottles. If it takes 450 years to biodegrade, one water bottle, and there are 35,000,000 bottles thrown away in a week, just imagine how many years it will take for all of those water bottles to stack up to reach the moon. There are too many water bottles in landfills…

How much would you like to get rid of Water bottles because they’re not using purified water 25% of the time the other 75% is purified. Companies like Dasani and Aquafina are using tap water instead of purified water they just say it’s purified so they can make money. I’m a student myself and i think that source #2 is right because More than 1 billion plastic water bottles end up in California’s landfill every year , taking 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives such as…

Many campus’s have small cafés or there are coffee shops within walking distances. University and post secondary education students have more reason to stay up late by working on multiple tests and assignments and therefore, consume more coffee. The MyMug is a great way to keep one’s coffee hot all day while students are between classes and are constantly on the move. Not only would a MyMug benefit a student…

What to do with all these water bottles! Humans are slowly killing the planet! Pollution of the planet is not a new concept, humans having been trying to figure out how to combat this problem. Unfortunately it is not fully working, so instead individuals have come up with ways to repurpose pollution. One such item would be water bottles. In this synthesis of sources different people have took a crack at helping the environment in their own way. In two articles, “Eco-village in Panama” written…

Is the water you’re drinking and using everyday for your daily necessities really clean? Probably not, tap water can have harmful chemicals that can cause learning deformities in children and even adults! Bottled water unlike tap water has strict requirements set by the FDA. Bottled water is also much more convenient in times of need like earthquakes and hurricanes. Tap water is still harmful, yet it has been through water treatment facilities. If it has been through treatment old pipes in your…