Bisphenol A: The Destruction Of The Human Body

Thesis: Plastic water bottles were created to make our life easier; however the pollution it has made has linked to cancer and chemicals not known fifty years ago.

Plastic water bottles are considered one of the healthiest beverages you can find in any shop. But are they really all that healthy for the environment, or is there a fine line between a plastic bottled water drink and what’s best for everyone? Let’s take a look at bottled water from the very start to find out. To manufacture plastic bottles, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is used, and to produce PET, crude oil and natural gas is required. If one fills a plastic water bottle 1/4th full with oil, they will be looking at how much oil was used to make that one bottle, so how much oil does it take to make all of America’s water bottles? According to the Pacific Institute, in 2006, making plastic water bottles

Many of people have not realized that the creation of bottled water affects our environment. The production of water bottles requires a large amount of water plus the water that is needed to fill the bottle. Considering there is a shortage of water in several places, water should be better handled and not wasted on plastic bottle making. Of the eighty million single serve bottles of water consumed daily, thirty million ends up in landfills (Soechtig, 2009 qtd. in “Bottled Water: The Risks to Our Health, Our

The overall food contamination by Bisphenol A is unknown, but the nutrition/ health impact of this chemical is an important subject to be discussed for all individuals. The main aim of one study recently analyzed was to assess the reproductive impact of BPA leached from regularly available polycarbonate plastic containers. The bottles specifically chosen for testing were those that were used by children. The migration of BPA occurs in polycarbonate plastics (i.e. water bottles and baby bottles). Toxicology reports show society the importance of evaluating these products before purchase and consumption as a consumer. For a particular experiment, researchers used Daphnia Magna, a small flea that cleans and absorbs particles that infect the solution they are placed in, and bred them in the polycarbonate containers. A control group was created using water bottles without the infection of these creatures. A GC-MS machine to detect the level of BPA released by each polycarbonate plastic then evaluated the water. An increase in the reproduction of BPA was detected when the Daphnia Magna were bred inside the container. Although these organisms effected the leaching of Bisphenol A, the GC-MS was able to detect, through the control group, that BPA is released without DM. An Eco toxicological effect was observed through all of this testing, and provided evidence to substantiate the fact that Bisphenol A is leached from polycarbonate plastics. The BPA was further analyzed in the Daphnia

In 2004, Americans, on average, drank 24 gallons of bottled water, making it second only to carbonated soft drinks in popularity (Standage). In the article “Plastic Water Bottles Causing Flood or Harm to the Environment,” the Earth Policy Institute factors the energy used to pump, process, transport, and refrigerate bottled water as over 50 million barrels of oil every year (Schriever). It’s absurd that so many resources are used to make plastic bottles which are not necessary at all. Bottled water does allow us to drink water out of it but in reality bottled water is very bad for

Chemical compounds that are commonly heard of today such as BPA (bisphenol A) is a toxic compound found mostly in plastics and then are dumped into oceans that begin to poison our waters where humans, but mostly animals drink and ingest through the nose. (Barry, 2009). Another toxic chemical such as PVC (polyvinyl chloride) can be harmful to animals on land and in sea can leak from plastic water bottles. This intoxicates the water where animals drink and swim, causing them to grow ill and maybe even die. (Breast Cancer Fund, http://www.breastcancerfund.org/clear-science/environmental-breast-cancer-links/plastics/?referrer=https://www.google.com/) By eliminating much of the plastics consumption that ends up in the oceans, we will prevent animals and humans also from being affected by the harmful chemicals being produced.

The movie documentary Tapped has opened not only mine, but a group of society’s eyes to what harm we are actually causing upon on ourselves with an action so little as to drinking out of plastics bottles. People have been drinking out of bottle waters assuming that what the are drinking out of is safe but once over thousands of plastic bottles were tested huge concerns grew. Studies show that varieties of bacteria and chemicals were found, causing cancer and other illnesses. One of the many harmful chemicals found in these plastic bottles is Styrene which causes a cancer causing agent and also could possibly cause adverse reproductive effects. Investigators also found three different types phthalate, Diethyl phthalate, Dioctyl phthalate that

“When was the last time you spent an entire day without using a piece of disposable plastic?” This quote is used by Kitt Doucette in her article, An Ocean of Plastic (412). It shows that using plastic water bottles are becoming a part of people’s lifestyle, regardless people don’t think about the consequences of using them. Water is a necessary part to human life and without water we cannot survive. Humans need at least eight glasses of water to make up for the fact that we lose an average of ten glasses per day throughout normal functions such as sweating and breathing. We must drink the right amount of water in order to stay healthy. There are millions of people worldwide who use plastic water bottles, and there have been massive sustainability

The NRDC found out that two brands of plastic water bottles were contaminated with phthalates (Jemmott). Phthalates are used to make plastic softer. This chemical prevents the body’s normal functions from happening. The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) only oversees water from being bottled, but does require bottlers to regularly test for contaminates (Jemmott). The FDA considers bottled water a low-risk product, so plants may not be inspected each year (Jemmott). Also bottled water in plastic bottles can contain PBC which is found to cause cancer (Bartlett). Overall bottled water can contain chemicals that can severely harm you in the

Everyone one at some point in their life has drank from a plastic bottle, whether it was a baby bottle, a plastic disposable water bottle, or just a water bottle you have used for exercise. If you were to show someone one of these thing they would know what it is, but what they might not know is that it can be harmful to them. A while back a lot water bottles used to be made with something called BPA, which has been proven to have many side effects on people when it get absorbed into from the plastic to your water. In this paper I will be informing you on BPA, what it is on how it gets into your water, what side effects it can have on you, and are water bottle safe for you now.

Since the 1990’s Americans are drinking less soft drinks and are now consuming more bottled water than ever. Currently, Americans are drinking over 50% more bottled water than they did in 2001 (theatlantic.com). A reason for this could be that more Americans are aware of the health issues soft drinks create. Although the resurgence and emphasis on a healthier society is a positive aspect of the popularity of water bottles, it does also bring negative aspects. For example, 80 million bottles of water are sold daily in the US daily which means that 80 million plastic bottles need to be disposed. Recycling is what many people believe combats the issue of disposing of so many water bottles but only 20% of those plastic bottles actually get recycled leaving the other 80% to end up in the ocean or even a landfill. This harms the environment, as landfills tend to remove the oxygen from the ground and release methane, a greenhouse gas, harming the ozone layer. A depleting ozone layer causes global warming, the ice caps to melt, and an increased risk in skin cancer. As for the oceans, the plastic bottles degrade then conjoin to create plastic masses as large as the state of Texas. This harms the coral reef and not only pollutes the ocean but also people’s food supply as many fish ingest the plastic then people ingests the fish.

“One of the biggest challenges facing the bottled water industry is how to respond to the environmental claims levelled against it” (Grocer). Every time someone throws a bottle away, they have taken up more space in a landfill for the next four hundred fifty to one thousand years. Besides the long decomposition rate, water bottles are the cause of several more environmental issues. Overfilling landfills, health hazards caused by refilling, and the economic stresses due to the constant and inconvenient repurchasing are just a few of the negatives water bottles have on us. These plastic pollutants are doing more harm to both the environment and their users than good.

As people we often do not realize how much material that we use in our daily day basis can affect our environment especially plastic water bottle. Plastic water bottles have become a problem in our environment because according to my research “American discards about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5% it is recycled and 7.7% is burned in waste to energy facilities, which create electricity or heat from the garbage (Cho, 2012)”. These plastic water bottles that Americans throw away each year are made with PET plastic which is 100% recyclable. The problem with these Plastic water bottles is that if people don 't recycle the majority end up in landfills. When these bottles are in landfills the average time that it takes for water bottles to break down is about 1000 years (O’Connor, 2011). The issues with these water bottles is that it takes a lot of time for them to decomposed and if these water bottles are continuing being dumped down in landfills, these water bottles are going to break into smaller fragments over time and they are going to absorb toxins that is going to pollute waterways and can contaminate our soil and make our animals sick as well (Schriever, 2013).

The consumption of bottled water continues to rise. As the popularity of bottled water many people consume bottled water on a daily basis and many people have many concerns regarding this topic of bottled water. Many people think that It is harming towards the environment because most people throw away their bottles in the closest thing they find which is the trash can. But there are some people that believe that bottled water is good for you and that you can’t live without it.also from my prior knowledge I know that 25% of bottled water companies just used to purify tap water and some companies don't even use purify the tap water, but we can all say that there are many pros and cons to using water bottles and that the following articles

One of the unseen causes of death in American, and the rest of the world, is cancer. One popular statement about plastic bottles is the theory of the causing cancer. When being transported, plastic waters are not refrigerated. Creating the possibility of the plastic slightly “melting,” releasing possible cancer causing chemicals into the water. “ People have claimed chemicals inside plastics leach into food or drink causing cancer. In particular there have been concerns about Bisphenol A (BPA) and dioxins in plastic bottles or plastic containers “ ( Plastic Bottles And Food Containers ). But this claim is