Drinking only one bottle of water can make our environment harmful to animals and humans. Bottled water is very harmful to the environment, the bottles just get thrown in landfills. You might think bottle water is safer than other waters, but it is actually just as bad. Bottled water is also more expensive. On the other hand, water is our Earth’s healthiest drink, unlike other drinks that have caffeine, sugar and high calories.
Bottled water can fill up landfills and most of the bottled water is wasted... often it is not even finished! “ More than 1 billion plastic water bottles end up in California’s landfills each year, taking 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives such as phthalates into the groundwater.” This is stated in Goodbye, Bottled Water. Almost 80% of the water bottles we get end up in the landfills. Over 60 million plastic bottles end up in landfills each day! Last years count was over 64 billion plastic water bottles.Therefore, to prevent this we need to stop buying them.
You might think bottled water is healthier or better for you than other waters or tap water. Surprisingly bottled water is worse than tap water and it is toxic . Bottle water can contain chemicals that can make you sick. These chemicals are called polyethylene and terephthalate. Both tap water and bottled water come from the same source. This means, bottled water is not any better than tap water.
In addition, bottle water has expensive prices. According to the article “Bottle versus tap: Which is Safer? it states that, “ Price it by the gallon, and water in those single-serve bottles is more expensive than even today’s high-priced gasoline.” With this in mind, “bottle water is in between 240 and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water.” Humans spend globally 60 billion dollars on bottled water in the past year. All in all, water bottles are more expensive than tap water.
On the other hand bottled water, is the healthiest packaged beverage option you can drink. People also need to drink lots of water to stay hydrated. Bottled water has a refreshing taste, zero calories, and its quality. When people want to eliminate calories, caffeine, sugar and artificial flavors water is the drink to have. No matter what water you are drinking it is a healthy lifestyle that everyone needs to live. Without drinking other sugary drinks you can eliminate 280 calories per person a week. Bottled water is also easy to get when you need to eliminate sugars. They have bottled water available wherever packaged beverages are. So when you start a diet bottled water is convenient.
All in all, bottled water should be banned because the plastic is filling up landfills. The water is not as healthy as you think it is. It is also very overpriced and people are wasting their money buying it and just throwing it away. So have you thought of banning bottled water?
By: Kaila Hatton
By: Kaila Hatton
