Answer:
WATER BOTTLES SHOULD BE BANNED
Ever wonder why plastic is the main source of trash in oceans and in landfills? What people don’t realize is that it’s creating a lot more problems by the minute. Bottled waters should be banned. Bottled water is bad for the environment and it’s easier to fill up a cup full of the filtered tap.
Getting bottled water may seem convenient at times, say, at a gym or a theme park. But the bad sides of it outweigh the benefits. When people get bottled water, they usually forget to recycle it when they are finished, and about only 40% of it gets recycled, according to a 2019 survey at Virginia Beach. Sure, there are biodegradable water bottles, but there aren’t enough. They’re expensive and hard to find; hence major water bottle manufacturers don’t accept them. And that’s why most people are careless about it: Bottled water isn’t biodegradable, it doesn’t get recycled often, and they aren’t sellable worldwide.
Filling up the tap is much easier because it helps the environment, it saves money (yes, that 2 dollar bill), and, of course, it’s free. Staying at home and simply not going to the store to get bottled water helps the environment!! The cups,(free at home) and water,(also free at home) are great ways of money management.
Finally, down deep in the last paragraph. The reason why bottled water should be banned is. Plastic takes 500 years to break down, according to a study at Harvard University in 2020. FIVE HUNDRED. What a shocker. We need to recycle plastic. But what most people don’t realize, is that the future of our planet is at stake. For the ocean, for the animals, for the people. And the people after them. Slowly, but surely, the planet is dying down. Plastic pollution causes harm to humans, animals, and plants through toxic pollutants. It can take hundreds or even thousands of years for plastic to break down so the environmental damage is long-lasting. It affects all organisms in the food chain from tiny species like plankton to whales.
Bottled water is bad for the environment and it’s easier to fill up a cup full of the filtered tap. Bottled waters should be banned. Remember when people get bottled water, think about the animals and the future of the Earth. What’s it going to be, saving the future of the planet and animals from plastic pollution, or getting bottled water?
Explanation: Well, I already did. But I spent 35+ mins writing this. I think I did good.