Bottle It Up

only answer is right on the tip of the tongue, it is a bottle tipping life giving water into the mouth of a dying child, or the dehydrated mother attempting to nourish her baby. The world is in need of water that does not come from a tap, that is not diseased and contaminated. The need for bottled water is real, it is a deadly and terrific expanse which cannot be bridged by a single glass, a bridge for humanity will be built on 1 million bottles filled with life. A bridge leading to bright and…

details the effects water bottles and water bottle production has on the environment and the people living there. It details the way water bottling companies take advantage of local communities and their environments in order to turn a profit. The movie also discusses the way advertising for bottled water changed and how it motivated Americans to buy more bottled water. Tapped also highlights the dangers of living next to oil plants that are used in the production of plastic bottles. Tapped was…

plastic water bottles! Why get rid of plastic water bottles? Well, because first of all, it is horrible for the environment, and because it is a big scam. We might as well buy electricity in a can for a lot more money. Because that is what plastic water bottles are doing. Trashing the environment First of all it is horrible for the environment. According to “The Story of Bottled Water” it says, in one year just in the U.S we use enough oil and gas to make plastic water bottles to fill up…

Everyone in the meeting was highly engaged and I used the brainwriting technique and identified the problem statement. Each team member wrote their idea on a sheet of paper and others added to the list. Not only did we find opportunities to improve the bottle and packaging there were additional efficiencies and cost saving opportunities with the liquid. This branwriting session triggered new ideas from the cross functional team and did not stifle divergent thinking. The findings from the…

Also, a bottle of water can sometimes be more expensive than today’s high priced gasoline. “In 2006, manufacturing those billions of bottles required 17 million barrels of oil,” which is enough to supply 250,000 homes with electricity for a year. It could also supply 100,000 cars with gasoline for a year. So if you thought…

In today’s world there are many controversies over what people should drink or eat. One of these are-if people should drink bottled water. It is after all very portable and good in extreme citations. This is a problem though because the bottles are made of plastic which fills our oceans and landfills and takes many years to decompose. Other people say the water is bad for the body, they say the chemicals in the plastic can leach out into the water and ultimately harm you. Lastly most people…

people drink bottled water, according to John Stewart, four billion pounds of empty plastic water bottles are found in landfills and on the sides of roads every year. Saying that, tap water is much better for the environment, with bottled water, plastic gets left all over polluting our nation. Tap water also is much cheaper than bottled water, for instance, getting one gallon of bottled water can cost up to $7.60, about 3 times as much as a gallon of gas as it says in readworks article, “Think…

that the mountains on the labels of some bottled water brands are pure fiction! what surprised me the most was the fact that when i recycle my water bottles that they just go to the backyards of people in india. my mom and i would always collect all our water bottle and take them to a recycling depot on the weekends, i remember sorting the bottles and as a reward my mom would let me keep the money…

healthier alternative to tap water. Unfortunately, the water bottle industry is hiding something from us, and the truth is frightening. Studies by the Container Recycling Institute found that Americans buy approximately 42.6 billion plastic water bottles each year. Roughly 80 percent of these containers end up in a landfill, and millions wash up on roadways or in nature. Countries around the world are paying an insurmountable price to clean up this swelling crisis. Recent research also…

the [...] problem plastic bottles generate” (3). In “Mayors Push,” Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Patrick McCrory and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, Mayor Don Robart say that the bottled water industry has tried to limit the plastic used for water bottles. The bottled water industry's believe that it’s not their fault that people just throw their plastic bottles on the ground. The industry would like the cities’ and towns’ to teach their citizens the proper way of disposing plastic bottles, and not just throwing…