Shortcoming of bottled-water waste
1. Bottled-water actually has fewer standards regulating it. 2. Microbes, pesticides, traces of drugs, bacteria, viruses and solvents have been detected throughout groundwater supplies, and have subsequently found their way into bottles, regardless of disinfection. 3. Virtually every public water supply in the world contains traces of synthetic organic chemical contaminants. 4. Chemicals typically used to disinfect water may react unpredictably with substances, adding their own potentially dangerous element as well 5. The health consequences of our contaminated drinking water are tragic! Especially for young children, whose bodies cannot detoxify certain compounds as adults can( mostly in developed and poor countries)
2. One hundred years ago, for example Americans had a 1 in 50 chance of getting cancer, nowadays one out of three people will get cancer. It is even worse for men! One out of two men will get cancer! 3. Some of the problems with bottled-water such as the environmental effect of the manufacture and disposal of all those plastic bottles. In most countries thousands tons of used bottled water directed to the land fill area which creating a global warming pollution and other air pollution 4. Less the 20% of wasted bottles been recycled 5. The transportation of bottled-water from location to other location will released an estimated thousands tons of global warming pollution into the atmosphere 6. The World Wide Fund for Nature commissioned study called “Bottled Water: Understanding a social phenomenon,” in which it reveals that every year 1.5 million tons of plastic are used to bottle water and toxic chemicals can be released during the manufacture and disposal of the bottles. 7. However, plastics often contain a variety of toxic additives, are often added to brittle plastics like (PVC) to make them pliable enough for use in food packaging, children's toys and teethers, tubing, shower curtains and other items.
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