Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
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Carry a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the tide of social view is coming back down against you. From top rating documentaries, to papers and campaigns, the hottest topic in our lives is the problem of bottled water and the waste of resources that the industry forces.
The producing, moving and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles demands big amounts of water as well as energy, and produces tremendous measures of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the new documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig states “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 people behind Tapped are pushing the film with their across-America roadshow, taking sponsorships from Americans to take down their water bottle waste and taking their discarded plastic water bottle in exchange 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. From the pen of Annie Leonard of the famous ‘The Story of Stuff’, this film explores the strategy that is behind tricking Americans into buying over five hundred million bottles of water each and every week, as opposed to a few cents cost for water from the tap. See the documentary on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte investigates one of the biggest marketing takeovers of this century and gives a strong environmental alarm bell. She asks the problems we must eventually answer to. Who distributes the water distribution? What will happen when a bottled-water business possesses your town’s water source? Is the water that comes out of a tap completely safe? What really is the environmental factor of making, transportation and waste of a single plastic water bottle?
Politicians from everywhere around the nation are realising that they must start the campaign – particularly when the meetings where they work are huge consumers of bottled water. How often do we view a politician at a political debate sipping from a water bottle. It is probable that they should be able to drink from a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie 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.”
In July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first community from Australia to ban the selling of bottled water. At least 60 cities in the American states and a few in Canada and the United Kingdom have lately banned the expenditure of taxpayer money on bottled water.
It is certain that these dilemmas will be debated during World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the environment’s most urgent water-related dilemmas.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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