The issue of the overuse of water bottles has become a talked-about, mentioned-in-articles issue--it has become another component of the growing green revolution. Supporters of the constant use (& throwing away of) water bottles argue that its convenience is unmatched, that the water within the bottles is purer, that throwing out one plastic bottle per day won't do any harm. The cons: even if the average plastic water bottle is convenient, the mountains of plastic bottles in landfills are enormous--close to 90% of all water bottles used are thrown away as opposed to being recycled; in addition, plastic takes an estimated 1,000 years to deteriorate, so millions of bottles stay and fill up landfills; in addition to the millions of barrels of crude oil used to create the water bottles, countless more barrels are used to ship said bottles to their destinations; a constant supply of water bottles is hard on the wallet; most bottled water is filtered tap water in fancy packaging; government administrations inspect public water works more frequently and throughly than bottled water companies; the making of water bottles uses up precious natural resources.
The mass consumption and throwing away of water bottles needs to be dramatically reduced; doing so will undoubted lead to less use of oil, less pollution as well as utilize efficient and perfectly well-operating public water facilities.
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hey grace! first off thanks for making the font bigger, it was really killing my eyes lol.
i also heve personal experance with useing to many water bottles, as my familay goes through a bunch in a very short period of time. luckly as an avid backpacker i had a bunch of lexan (the really hard, easy to clean plastic) nalgene bottles kicking around and started using those insted (as you said). defintaly a good topic and one that raises alot of questions about what we use our valuable natrual resources on...
just as a point of intrest, i think that you should focous on a.) not wasteing fuel and resources/pollution transporting water and b.) the need to recycle water bottlaes that are used but not both at once, you were going back and forth a little bit and i think it will come across as a much strong argument if you kinda seperate them into to 2 seperate but related issues assoicated with h20 bottles.
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