should change the way they think about bottled water. CLOSING COMMENT: People need to take care of the earth. Brenda A. Gomez IEP 261-262 Final Draft #2 11/15/14 Word Count: 639 Bottled Water “Roughly 1.5 million tons of plastic are expended in the bottling of 89
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Science! Question Do different water bottle brands have different strengths when it comes to exploding with a chemical reaction from baking soda and vinegar? Variables Independent/Manipulated Variable: Brand of water bottle Dependant/Responding Variables: Amount of time it takes for bottle to explode Whether or not bottle explodes Controlled Variables: Amount of vinegar used in bottles Amount of baking soda used in bottles Same stopwatch used Same day bottles were experimented on Hypothesis I think
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to know when the water is truly safe‚ take in consideration that these disaster can cause a significant amount of damage to land and anything on the land‚ many of these things take weeks even months to fix. Another factor of portability that water bottles bring is the possibility of sending it to third world countries that do not have access to clean water. In majority of third world countries people are not able to just put their water on a stove and boil it. Most of the time people in these countries
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OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION: A GLOBAL TRAGEDY FOR OUR OCEANS AND SEA LIFE Plastic never goes away. And it’s increasingly finding its way into our oceans and onto our beaches. In the Los Angeles area alone‚ 10 metric tons of plastic fragments — like grocery bags‚ straws and soda bottles — are carried into the Pacific Ocean every day. Today billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences making up about 40 percent of the world’s ocean surfaces. Plastics pollution has a direct and
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Introduction I. Through a show of hands how many of you drink one water bottle a day? II. The use of bottled water is harmful for both humans and the environment due to false judgment‚ high cost and the pollution it causes. III. For my topic I have done plenty of research from highly credible health sources such as Food and Water Watch and conducted an in depth audience analysis in class. I also came across informative and educational videos on YouTube where I learned plenty of information
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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 in women‚ prostate cancer
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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 this waste. Even if these plastic
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you’re crushed by thousands of bottles of it). But in the documentary “Tapped‚” it’s portrayed as a terrible thing to buy. The reasons given are pretty eye opening too. According to the film‚ the waste leftover from the bottled water is polluting oceans‚ highways‚ fields and any other area one could think of. The pollution is so severe that there’s even a zone in the ocean the size of Texas filled with plastic‚ they described it in the documentary as a “plastic soup”. This area is called the Great
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labeled‚ bottle. Water is a necessity‚ but having it in a bottle is not a necessity. In an article by Tree Hugger it asserts “Somehow‚ somewhere‚ somebody decided that tap water was no longer acceptable and along came the paranoia‚ the bottled water and the oceans full of trash and empty plastic bottles”(Watson). This statement reiterates how consumers have become accustom to trusting bottle water more than tap‚ even though bottled water has issues all of its own. This creation of using plastic bottles
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1ST SIX WEEKS PERIOD Unit A Chapter 1 Lesson 2 Classifying Plants Modeling Water Transport Material: * small sponge‚ * pie tin‚ * water‚ * glass‚ * red food coloring‚ * celery stalk. Procedure 1. Pour a cup of water into the pie tin and the glass. Add food coloring to the glass. 2. Have a student place the sponge in the pie tin and the celery stalk in the glass. 3. After 24 hours‚ ask students how the sponge and celery model water transport systems in
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