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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…

million plastic water bottles are discarded every day. That is enough plastic water bottles to wrap around the planet 149 times each year,” Jockers researched. Plastic water bottles are hazardous to the environment and that is final. Water is water; persuaded people believe that bottled water is healthier and cleaner than regular tap water, yet that may not always be the case. The nutritional value between tap water and bottled water has no extreme change. The main reason people grab a bottle of…

Bottle water is a wise consumer choice because it is healthy for you, there are consumer goods that affect the environment more, and little off note the bottled water industry are being threatened. In this essay you will get information about bottled water and why it is a good consumer choice. Bottled water is found almost everywhere in the world and people are going against it, because of one thing (some places it is more) the plastic bottles they use to put the water in are affecting the…

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…

choice because they reuse the same bottles, all kinds of chemicals are used to make these bottles, and the bottles alone are bad for the environment. First of all bottled water is not a wise choice because they reuse the same bottles after melting them and just remold them to the new shape of the bottle. After a bottle is used it most likely is thrown away, but ends up back at the bottle factory and melted down and reformed to the new bottle shape. When a bottle is melted down and reformed…

For decades, we have been tricked into believing that plastic bottled water is a safer and 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…

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…

for 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…

toxins used in plastic water bottles are dangerous for our health. To begin with, tap water is better than bottled water because it is safer for the environment. When somebody drinks a glass of water and they use tap water they would usually use a glass and then just have to wash it. If someone drank a bottle of water and threw it away or if they littered and just threw it on the ground then that is not good for the environment. Also, nobody really takes the time to recycle the bottles, so…

easily get a glass of water. Also, with tap water, recycling is not needed, when 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,…