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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…

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…

effect of bottles on the environment. Whenever bottles get recycled/melted down, they’re releasing a chemical in the air that is bad for the ozone layer. ‘The State of California Department of Conservation notes that burning plastic bottles releases toxic fumes into the atmosphere. The chemicals released from burning bottles poses a health risk to consumers and contributes to the breakdown of the Earth’s ozone layer.’ Stated by Andrew Zaske and Aaron Edland, Osmonics, Inc. Bottles go to…

water at home and on-the-go.” Nevertheless, there are many landfills of bottled water across the world. Leonard claims that she “came face to face with a mountain of plastic bottled from California.” California isn’t the only country to send water bottles to a different country, so there’s probably landfills all over the world. Most of the bottled water in different countries don’t even get recycled. In summary, bottled water is very harmful towards our environment and is one of the reasons for…

You have a number of options when it comes to drinking water. However, you should definitely consider choosing filtered water. Below is a list of reasons you should drink filtered water: Dangerous Elements And Compounds Removed From Drinking Water Your tap water may have a number of dangerous elements and compounds in it. Arsenic is an example of something that may be in your drinking water. Arsenic is a carcinogen, and it has been linked to cancer. Aluminum is something else that may be in…

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…

lower, girls lifting a lot more than guys, and the science behind blender bottles at the gym. The first time at the gym for most of us deals with a lot of staring at muscles we didn’t know existed and looking at machines and stuff that we would never be able to figure out. One of the funny…

trash is scattered throughout the environment. “Waste is just a misplaced resource” ~Ken Dunn. Trash disposal is a difficult problem. Waste consists of organics, single-use packaging, biomedical products, electronics, durable goods, paper, plastic, glass and aluminum. Since waste is a misplaced resource, I thought up a solution to the waste management problem. What if there was a “system of systems” that dealt with trash? Waste would then be reduced, and even waste…

In Zhihua Hu's article, "Bottled Water... Quality," James Gleick states, "Eighty-five million bottles of water are consumed in the United States every day and more than thirty billion bottles a year." Many people do not realize what they are doing to the environment when they dispose of their water bottles. Individuals take advantage of the environment by using bottled water as a convenient resource. Bottled water has not always been available to individuals. While most people living in the…

the one bottle of water that you drank today was probably not tested. On the other hand tap water is tested 2-3 times a day. Bottled water is worse than tap water because it's bad for the environment, costs more, and is unsafe to drink. Bottled water is bad for the environment. First of all, "it takes over 1,000 years to bio de-grade a water bottle (Bottle Water Is Wasteful). In 1,000 years the water bottle will finally be decomposed. If you drink tap water you can buy a reusable bottle and…