Take a plastic water bottle to your own demise; the sway of social view is forming on you. From top rating documentaries, to papers and campaigns, the hottest topic on the soapbox is the terror of bottled water and the waste of resources that the industry creates.
The production, transporting and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles demands tremendous use of water alongside energy, and generates tremendous amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the new documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig claims “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 Tapped crew are publicizing the movie with their across-America roadshow, taking donations from Americans to take down their water bottle numbers and changing their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
A short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. Created by Annie Leonard of the famous ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film displays the process that is used to tricking Americans into wasting around half a billion bottles of water each week, compared with a few cents cost for clean tap water. See this new documentary on You Tube.
Through her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte chronicles one of the monumental marketing coups of this century and gives a powerful environmental alarm bell. She details the problems we must inevitably deal with. Who distributes the drinking water? What can happen when a bottled-water factory stakes a claim on your town’s source? Is the water coming out of a tap entirely safe? What is really the environmental factor of making, transporting and disposing of every plastic water bottle?
Politicians all around the globe are beginning to realise that they must do something – markedly when the meetings where they work are large consumers of bottled water. How often do we observe a politician at a political debate drinking from a water bottle. They might be able to drink from a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, claimed “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.”
In July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first society of Australia to stop the selling of bottled water. Some 60 townships in the United States and a handful of places in Canada and the UK have lately prohibited expending taxpayer funds on bottled water.
It is doubtless that these dilemmas will be on the agenda come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most current water-related problems.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores. For more information about eco-friendly water bottle choices, visit Biome Eco Stores today.
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