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Plastic Bottles Pollution by Doreen Liccione
Are
you aware of the environmental impact of plastic bottles? Usually
water is bottled in plastic packaging. Plastics are made of
petroleum, a non-renewable resource that requires new fossil
reserves to be extracted all the time.
By choosing to drink tap water, we can conserve this valuable resource and reduce our dependence on oil. The plastic manufacturing process is also associated with toxic by-products, such as styrene and benzene, which are released in the air and cause not only pollution, but respiratory problems and may cause cancers as well.
Most bottles will be incinerated or will end up in our already overcrowded landfills. The World Wildlife Fund estimates that about 1.5 million tons of plastic are used worldwide to make water bottles and according to the Environmental Protection Agency, plastics are the fourth largest category of municipal solid waste.
Obtaining water from an underground pipe is more energy efficient and uses far fewer natural resources than bottled water because of the transportation of bottles in trucks across the country or by ships around the globe. Besides consuming non-renewable natural resources, such as petroleum, their transport also contributes to pollution, noise and overcrowded highways and streets.
Approximately 1.5 million barrels of oil—enough to run 100,000 cars for a whole year—are used to make plastic water bottles, while transporting these bottles burns even more oil. ~
