During this era of the world and at the pace we are going we are not leaving a path or a good future for the generations to come. The article that talks about the plastic waste and the waste of fossil fuels is Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
by Abid Aslam. She wrote this on February 5, 2006 and posted it to "OneWorld.net". This goes on all over the world, people are wasting so much money on water bottles, it cost more for a gallon of water than it does for gas for your car. This is happening because some places that don't have water systems or plumbing need the water but in the long run it would cost less to install a plumbing system that will provide tap water. Even places with tap water, "Even in areas where tap water is safe to drink, demand for bottled water is increasing—producing unnecessary garbage and consuming vast quantities of energy,".
This a path that we don’t want to be heading down. As we learned in Biology class that an animals habitats are very important to them and the environment, the water bottles are killing it. 86% of the water bottles used in the United States are just thrown on the ground after. The bottles can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade. There are many controversies in this article because although it is killing the planet, it is also saving the people in it. In my opinion I think we should slow down the Mass production of water bottles and install water treatments and sanitation systems.
Link to original article: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/20-bottled-water-a-global-environmental-problem/
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