Persuasive Essay On California's Landfills

Did you know that more than 1 million bottles of water end up in California’s landfills each year, taking 1,000 years to biodegrade and leaking toxic additives such as phthalates into the groundwater.Studies have shown that 25% of bottled water is tap water sometimes purified sometimes not,and that 86% of the water bottles aren’t recycled and getting rid of them at school is where we can start and some of the 86% of the water bottles that aren’t recycled are in school. "Only about 14 percent of single-serving plastic water bottles are recycled..." "Therefore, about 86 percent of the water bottles sold are wasted: landfilled, incinerated, or littered," says Jennifer Gitlitz. Kids in school will most likely not throw their water bottles in the recycling bin but in the trash bin which filter into being landfilled or incinerated, and the CRI tracks the total number of wasted beverage cans and plastic bottles that go into U.S. landfills every year with a
minute-by-minute count. The current count for this year shows more than 64 billion wasted cans and bottles!Also bottled water promotes fossil fuel usage which creates carbon dioxide and adds to the already big amount in the atmosphere which can lead to global warming. Some people could say that it is easier having a bottle of water in class then having to go out to the water fountains, but what do people do with the water bottles after they are finished drinking them well they throw them away into the trash can not the recycle bin.
The water bottles also make a lot of noise which could be distracting for some peers, and in some state’s cities have already banned bottled water like Concord, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California. Water bottles can be very accessible but why spend money for multiple water bottles when you could make a one time purchase on a refillable metal water bottle. Even though the water may be purified the plastic cannot be and poses a threat to your health due to the chemicals in the plastic. The plastic contains bisphenol A (BPA) in the plastic container, and these compounds can seep into the water, which means you are probably consuming them. The risk is greatly increased if water content is stored in very warm areas, like areas with direct
sunlight. Bottled water can be big distractions in a school environment and most of the time they end up in the trashcan instead of the recycling bin. So banning bottled water in school would help to make other schools start banning bottled water then states would eventually ban bottled water and then the percent of bottled water that didn’t get recycled would start decreasing.