Friday, April 30th, 2010
titleThe Problem with Plastic Water Bottles/titleBear a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the pressure of social view is forming on you. From big rating documentaries, to articles and campaigns, the red hot issue in our lives is the problem that is bottled water and the waste that the industry generates./p pThe producing, moving and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles demands big amounts of water alongside energy, and creates large amounts of greenhouse gases and waste./p pDirector of the recent documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig sums it up 1500 water bottles end up in landfill every second that s 30 million water bottles a day! We wanted to show people just how much waste is generated by bottled water. The crew of Tapped are publicizing the film with their across-America roadshow, collecting donations from citizens to take down their water bottle waste and swapping their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes./p pAnother short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From the pen of Annie Leonard of the critically acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this new film explores the methodology that is behind convincing Americans into consuming at least five hundred million bottles of water a week, instead of a few cents cost for water from the tap. Check out the animation on You Tube./p pThrough her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte explores one of the monumental marketing coups of the twentieth century and gives a powerful environmental alarm bell. She asks the problems we must at some point respond to. Who distributes our water distribution? What could happen when a bottled-water corporation holds your town s drinking water? Is the water that comes out of a tap completely safe? What really is the environmental cost of making, transporting and waste of a plastic water bottle?/p pPoliticians around the world are beginning to understand that they are required to do something markedly when the institutions where they serve are huge consumers of bottled water. How often do we observe a politician in a political debate drinking from a water bottle. Surely they must be able to find a water glass in Parliament House./p pLeslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, held that Cities and states are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on bottled water, and that’s not to mention what’s spent to deal with all the plastic bottles that are thrown out./p pIn July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first community of Australia to stop the selling of bottled water. Some 60 places in the US and a handful in Canada and the UK have prohibited expending taxpayer holdings on bottled water./p pNo doubt this problem will be debated in World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet s most time-sensitive water-related events./p p pArticle written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores. For more information about eco-friendly a href=http://waterbottle.bybiome.com.au/water bottle/a choices, visit Biome Eco Stores today.
