Should Water Bottles Be Banned

One of the biggest harms to the world is pollution caused by people. Most of the plastic materials used by people are left to pollute. Bottled water is one of the biggest plastic materials produced. Some people say that bottled water is safer, convenient, and provide jobs to workers in many ways. The reasons for buying bottled water differ. Some people buy bottled water because they don’t like the taste or smell of tap water, while others on the other hand buy it because of health concerns with water contamination. Pollution is one of the biggest problems hurting the environment today, and water bottles that are thrown out after each one-time use, contribute greatly to its increasing buildup. Bottled water is not only expensive to us, but also to the environment. Bottled water is hurting the economy, harming human lives, and damaging the environment.

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

Bottled water should not be banned in school no because people come up with new ideas every day. Also if there is a natural disaster in a school and there are no water bottles then the water will be harder to drink. Also some schools will have no water flowing through the school so they will have to use water bottles. Also people can just reuse the water bottle so they won't have to buy a new one.

On the 29th of August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina rampaged through the United States, causing 125 billion dollars in damage, resulting in over a million houses destroyed and 80% of New Orleans flooded. Millions of people were left with undrinkable tap water, yet as a result, companies like the American Beverage Association donated more than 200,000 cases of bottled water (about 5 million water bottles) to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. However, if the United States had banned water bottles beforehand, what would have happened to those who needed it? As it is clearly know, water is such a vital necessity in plants, animals, and humans that without convenient, clean water, all life on Earth would eventually die.

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

Americans live in a consumer society where majority of products are packaged ready for use. This is attributed to the availability of disposable merchandise that is favorable and efficient in delivering the various products that are on demand. Among the various favorably consumed packed products is bottled water. It does not however, make sense for people to buy bottled water and throw the container away after they have emptied it. This is because the plastic bottles have a number of defects to the environment as well as to the general welfare of the economy. For example, in 1976 an average American drank 1.6 gallons of bottled water and since then the quantity has increased to an average of 30

Bottled water is something many people in the modern world drink from every day and trust fully, but what if this was all a huge scam? Plastic water bottles are convenient sure, but have serious negative effects that come along with them. These seemingly untroubling products are hurting not only consumer’s wallets, but the entirety of earth’s ecosystem. What are the negative effects that a bottle of water has and why is it so prevalent in our society if tap water is better in many ways? All the authors agree that bottled water has many drawbacks that come along with them, but Olsen seems to think regulation of quality for water bottles is a coming probability and may make them on par with tap water’s quality. I agree with the authors on this issue that bottled water is far behind on the best source of water and I believe the consumers of water bottles are simply unaware of the downsides it has.

I watched “The Story of Bottled Water”. This video’s main goal is to persuade you not to buy bottled water. The producers of the video gave examples showing a bad light on bottled water. One example highlighted how water bottles were sitting in landfills in India and polluting the world. I agree with the fact about how it is bad that the bottles are causing pollution. At another point in the video they said that being seen drinking out of a bottle of water was getting to the same level as being seen smoking while pregnant. I disagree with that statement. I think that is very extreme and just not true. My opinion on this topic after watching the video is that the problem is not the bottles of water and their companies, it is the factories in India that are not actually recycling the bottles. That seems to be the main problem.

Water bottles should be banned. It is not too late to make a difference. If we brought this problem into the world, than we can take it out. BAN BOTTLED

People all around the world are wasting their money on water bottles every day. Many believe that water bottles are so much better than the tap water, when the water in the bottle is your tap water. The only difference is that the water in the bottle is purified tap water. The generation that we have today rely strictly on drinking water bottles instead of tap out of the faucet. All of those people are wasting their money on bottled water, when all they need to do is invest in a cheap filter for their faucet. There are many pros and cons to water bottles. For example, water bottles are convenient, and they help you to stay hydrated easier because you can easily grab it and go. In contrast, when you use water bottles, you are harming the

Not many people think that drinking an innocent water bottle causes such a major effect. Water bottles in our society have such a great effect that people don't even realize it. When you throw away a water bottle, it's harmless right? Well, you're wrong if you think it doesn't harm the earth. Many people don't consider to start recycling, but should start because of how it protects the environment, as to just throwing away the water bottles. In addition, using water bottles yet is a good decision because if you use the water fountains, it is just basically faucet water. Yet, i think water bottles should not be used in our society.

“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.

Water bottles ruin the natural ocean ecosystem. The ocean provides us with most of our oxygen, and yet we destroy it with all of our plastic water bottles. According to the video, 1,500 water bottles are consumed each second, and only 10% is being recycled, which means 90% they ether go to the landfill, or in the ocean. Also, to make it even worse, bottles never biodegrade, which means they don’t decay or get absorbed by the environment. The ocean is dying because of us, so we need to fix it.

Do you really know where your tap water is coming from?Can you really trust it? that's why we shouldn't ban plastic water bottles.But wait there's more I have reasons to support my opinion. There safe, clean, convenient , and if you ban one bottled drink you have to ban all.

Have you ever had any concerns about bottled water? Do you think that bottled water consumption should be banned? Bottled water is water packed in plastic containers and sold for human consumption (Health Canada, 2013). Currently, the amount of bottled water consumed has increased considerably since many people feel it is safer drinking bottled water than tap water (Parent and Wrong, 2014). According to The Statistics Portal, the global sale of bottled water took a leap from 161, 589 to 181, 608 liters from 2009 to 2011. Only in the United States, each American citizen consumed around 32 gallons of bottled water in 2013, thus meaning an equivalent growth of 15, 94% over 2009 (The Statistics Portal, 2014). In fact, due to good portability, bottled water has been helpful in both simple and complex situations such as daily exercises and natural disasters. Even though having those few considerable advantages, bottled water still have been less beneficial; especially due to the negative impacts in the socio-economic, health and environmental fields.