Cradle Vs PET Bottles

There are many impacts that bottled water has on the environment. The choice of packaging determines many impacts. The bottles, which are either plastic, aluminum, or glass, that are not recycled are thrown into landfills and buried. According to the Container Recycling Institute, 86% of plastic water bottles in the United States become garbage. If water bottlers would have used 10% recycled materials in their plastic bottles in 2004, they would have saved the equivalent of 72 million gallons of gasoline. If they used 25%, they would have saved enough energy to power more than 680,000 homes for a year (Jemmott, 2008). Incinerating used bottles produces toxins such as chlorine gas and ash. Water bottles that get buried can take up to thousands of years to biodegrade. The most common type of plastic is polyethylene

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

One of the plastics that are used everyday are plastic bottles. Approximately 185 pounds of plastic are thrown away each year by the average american. Some of these plastics are plastic water bottles. Each year americans throw away 35 billion plastic water bottles. These plastic bottles end up in landfills or the ocean. When they reach

I mean these bottles are sold in vending machines, groceries stores, social events such as festivals, and so much more. Besides the bottles sold commercially these bottles end up in landfills, streams, trees, or places where plastic bottles do not belong. If the plastic bottle was biodegradable once we finished with the plastic bottle instead throwing away and ended up in the landfill. The bottle can be decomposed properly. Since the mass production not just on plastic bottles, but material

Refilling a plastic bottle can have unforeseen consequences. Using a refillable water bottle is better for the drinker’s health than drinking out of plastic bottles only meant to be used once because they are not good quality.“Plastic bottles contain a harmful substance called polyethylene terephthalate, or PET, which is dangerous to human health” (“Think” par. 2). If that is not a serious enough reason, there are even more chemicals that are found in plastic bottles. “BPA has been connected to cases of hormonal issues and even cancer” (Speer par. 4). No one should be consuming harmful chemicals. Use of plastic bottles, whether for

is a difficult chemical to escape -- it's in so many plastic products from water bottles and sippy cups to contact lenses and toys. Controversial studies linking BPA to health risks, particularly reproductive risks, prompted companies to go the "BPA-free" route. But new research from the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA) Health Sciences says not so fast: BPS (Bisphenol S), a replacement for BPA that technically makes products BPA-free, is probably not safe either.

There was once a time, not so long ago, when the great majority of people could be seen carrying around plastic, disposable water bottles. Now however, despite people still wanting to carry their water around with them, we’re hearing some very somber warnings about plastic bottles. So what’s the big deal with plastic bottles we hear you ask? Let’s dig into the details shall we?

“Plastic water bottles are littered on the coasts of waterways and the side of the road more often than they make it to a recycle bin. The difference between throwing an apple on the ground and throwing a disposable water bottle on the ground is that plastic is impossibly hard to decompose. Plastic in the natural environment takes 450 years to decompose, and can take up to 1000 years in a landfill” (Reise). Schools should require students to bring their own reusable water bottles and schools should stop selling plastic bottles. There are many benefits to reusable water bottles including being better for one’s health, not buying plastic bottles saves money, and helps the environment.

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

The water bottle industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the United States. This being said, our landfills are filled with more than eighty five percent of plastic bottles. Their long lifetime and thoughtless consumers are not only filing our dumps with these plastic bottles, but hurting our oceans too. Since water bottles do not biodegrade, they can float aimlessly on the ocean surface for years. They also may cause a passing predator to be fooled into thinking it is a resting prey. Little did that predator know, they were going to have a serious stomach ache trying to digest a plastic bottle. It also pollutes the soil and waterways as well. Besides the space water bottles physically fill, their production waste is just as dire. In America alone, we use about seventeen

By far the most widely used material in baby bottles, plastic is affordable, lightweight and can be moulded into different designs and shapes. Plastic baby bottles are so common that you can spot at least one in nine out of ten households with infants. However, the use of these bottles declined with the spread of awareness of BPA content present in them. You’ll be glad to know that in 2012, FDA banned the use of BPA in baby bottles and sippy cups. To make sure, you can also look for BPA-free label on the bottle.

We as consumers have been lied to as far as them being recycled and safe for the planet. Plastic bottles are not sustainable, no matter what we've been told. Using vast quantities of fossil fuels and water, these bottles are manufactured, filled, and shipped around the globe. (Not a

Approximately 1 of 5 plastic bottles get recycled… 17 million barrels of oil is used to produce plastic bottles for a year in the US alone. They also need to be transported which adds to the pollution and global warming. Apparently 80% of the plastic bottles that was thrown to recycling are shipped to another country to dump or do our recycling for which also uses transportation. That is why Plastic bottles are a waste of resources.

Access to safe, clean drinking water is certainly one of the most obvious things that humans need for their survival. One of the ways that current companies have sought to meet this need is through the production and distribution of convenient, disposable water bottles. However, the often underestimated, and in some cases unknown, environmental impacts of producing disposable water bottles is truly a predicament worth consideration. In fact, it is a problem that is so big that I myself would be willing to buy less, or even cease buying, bottled water.

Plastic water bottles are seen and consumed everywhere. Without knowing the deadly effects that water bottles have on the environment, consumers will keep buying them and contribute to the problem. About 17 million barrels of oil are used each year solely to make water bottles