The Bottle Rockets

Is bottled water inferior to tap water? Bottled water has a plethora of benefits and is constantly impacting our daily lives. Benefits may include, but are not limited to, increase in water intake, convenience, and the ability to be easily prepared for disasters. For these reasons, bottled water is arguably superior to the “municipal supply.” Americans spend billions of dollars on bottled water every year, but why are Americans drinking so much water? On Talk of the Nation, Ms. Royte says,…

of the most popular ways of consuming water today is through plastic water bottles. Although they are easy to grab when walking out of the house and convenient, they cause a major problem for the environment because they pollute. Last year alone, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles and only recycled 38. With this ratio, we are wasting more than $1 billion worth of plastic by throwing out these water bottles. Considering these facts, it seems that we need to come up with a…

complement one another since they are directly related to a person’s daily routine. Health risks can arise from mineral deposits within tap water or chemicals contained in water bottles. In addition, environmental risks can arise from over consumption or wasteful use of water, in addition to, improper disposal of bottles that can harm the earth and its ecosystems. While water may be consumed through bottled…

Mercury is a deadly liquid that causes damage to the nervous system. If that doesn’t interest you, i'm not really sure what will. Mercury has been the interest of people for over a millennia, as a heavy liquid metal. Due to the toxicity of the element it is slowly being used less and less. Now it is mostly used in the industry as a stimulus, also used in electrical switches, thermometers, barometers and the other scientific instruments. On a biological role mercury has no role but is present in…

statistics to prove Fiji Waters’ dedication to the environment. The author cites changes to how Fiji remains carbon neutral by “[installing] a windmill in 2009 to provide energy to its bottling plant in Fiji in the South Pacific [and] it will ship bottles of water intended for sale on the East Coast to the Port of Philadelphia, rather than truck them east from Los Angeles”. These statistics appeal in a well-received manner to most by appealing to the pathos of a reader, and the author uses this…

"In Flint, the amount of lead found in in residents' water since the crisis erupted has varied from house to house with many showing no detectable levels of lead."(Young) The town in the last quote is a town in Michigan that has had major problems with their tap water for the past couple of years therefore showing people that it is safer to drink bottled water. Bottled water is also convenient, important in a disaster, and regulated by the FDA. First off, bottled water is extremely convenient…

water to produce a plastic bottle than to fill it, according to Hana Elisbury who wrote the article “10 Startling Facts About Bottled Water”. There are two ways to create plastic bottles; extrusion and injection. Billions of plastic bottles are used everyday, yet we rarely put much thought into how they are made. The process of making plastic bottles can be divided into three major steps. Assembling the material is the initial necessary step to creating plastic bottles. Collecting materials and…

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…

plastic bottles in your business. I am becoming more concerned of this because your company is producing over 100 billion bottles in a single year. When I learned this startling fact I couldn't help to think that you can be one of the major contributors in the sheer amount of bottles in landfills, and in the ocean. I want to offer a few suggestions to you to help combat the issue so the environment can be saved. As you know your company produces a lot of bottles, and all of the bottles are made…

on their body. It is best to drink water everyday so the water demand goes up all the time. It's the water bottle that worry so many people. However there are many pros and cons to using water bottles, the following articles show the different perspectives of whether plastic water bottles should or should not be used in our society. To begin, in the article Water, Water Everywhere-in Bottles by Mike Esterl they talk about the fact that the rising of water buying is crazy. Everyone…