water. Bottled water uses many resources and creates huge amounts of waste. It is estimated that it takes over 25 million gallons of petroleum to produce 1 billion plastic water bottles. To put that into perspective‚ Americans consume about 50 billion plastic water bottles every year‚ and that is not counting soda bottles! It also produces 1.5 million tons of plastic every year and plastic takes 700 years to decompose. Bottled water also has BPA’s that have been linked to diseases such as breast cancer
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Outline I. INTRODUCTION TOPIC: Bottled water HOOK: THESIS STATEMENT: effects on humans‚ environment and oceans BODY II. FIRST EFFECT: Humans SUPPORTING DETAILS: Bottled water has many bad things for our bodies. III. SECOND EFFECT: Environment SUPPORTING DETAILS: Bottled water has many chemicals that contaminate the environment. IV. THIRD EFFECT: Oceans SUPPORTING DETAILS: We think we recycle bottled water but they end up oceans. V. CONCLUSION: Bottled water has many effects on us and environment
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Thai Nguyen Professor Rai Synthesis Essay Sat‚ Feb 11th 2013 Bottled Water vs. Tap water The rational choices one can make The use of bottle water is a debatable topic. Some people claim that using bottled water is severely damages the environment due to recycling issues. Others‚ however‚ believe that bacteria in tap water are not good for your health. Although both sides of the issues have merit‚ bottled water seems to have some disadvantages due to its negative impacts on the environment
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Japanese Rubbish System 1) Burnable trash is you basic trash. Put food and wrappers and bags in here. Actually‚ most trash is deposited in the burnable section. 2) PET bottles‚ which means plastic bottles‚ which must be separated. Rip off the wrapper and rinse out the PET bottle. Then you (should) flatten it as much as possible. 3) Donboru (cardboard.) If it’s just a tiny piece then most people put it in burnable trash‚ but if you get a care package from home you’ll want to put the box out with
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drinks and other flavored drinks. Soft drinks are also found in supermarkets‚ convenient stores‚ vending machines‚ and restaraunts. This makes the soft drinks more accessible to their customers. Soft drinks are also consumed by cans‚ plastic bottles‚ glass bottles‚ and fountain drinks. Concentrates are more profitable than bottling cola because concentrates are made by blending the raw ingredients together before it gets shipped to the bottler. On average a concentration plant can cost anywhere between
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carbonated to provide the effervescence that is the trademark of the producer. Some of the water is also flavored with lemon‚ cherry‚ and raspberry additives. Next‚ the sparkling water is packaged in a variety of bottle sizes and materials‚ ranging from 0-ounce glass bottles to 1-liter plastic bottles. The European market receives its shipments directly by truck‚ usually within three days. Products bound for North America or Australia are shipped first by truck to the waterfront and then by freighters to
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The fact that animals and being ripped from their homes. For what? A box of Macaroni and Cheese? A bottle of shampoo. It saddens me to no extend. Don’t get me wrong‚ I love my Macaroni and Cheese‚ but at what cost? Animals homes are being taken from them‚ families of animals are being torn apart apart for something so small. Lives are being ruined‚ for
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exposing yourself to the dangers of developing tooth decay. The greatest downside of bottled water is its effect on the environment. Given the number of people taking bottled water‚ the environment is littered with emptied plastic bottles; only a small fraction of these bottles can be recycled. They therefore constitute environment problem. One of the problems facing the contemporary world is the problem of waste management. The government is spending a huge sum of money every year in order to manage
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noted that tap water is more pure than bottled water. Humans think that drinking bottled water is safer than drinking tap water but tap water has benefits. If people drink less bottled water it saves plastic resources used to manufacture plastic bottles and it saves space in landfills. The results had shown that how tap water is better than bottled water. Graphs had been showed in below experiment. There are so many qualities of tap water: safe to drink‚ clear and colourless‚ does
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the companies are merely meeting the demands of the customers. The bottle industries have every constitutional right to do what they do. Its not just bottled water companies that pollute and waste‚ all industries do it. So‚ economically‚ it would be unfair to prohibit the bottle companies from doing business. The bottled water companies aren’t the criminals; the criminals are the ignorant consumers of America‚ who with each bottle purchased are supporting the destruction and forcing companies to do
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