Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Take a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the sway of popular perspective is turning away from you. From popular rating documentaries, to the written word and campaigns, the hottest topic around is the horror of bottled water and the waste of resources that the industry forces.
The producing, transportation and disposal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles consumes tremendous quantities of water and energy, and generates large amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the recent documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig says “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 behind Tapped are publicizing the documentary with an across-America roadshow, asking money from citizens to take down their water bottle waste and taking their discarded 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. From Annie Leonard of the critically acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this film explores the method that is used to swaying Americans into buying around hundreds of millions of bottles of water a week, despite the option of a few cents cost for clean tap water. Check out this new animation on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte demonstrates one of the most massive marketing coups of our century and demands a sudden environmental alarm bell. She asks the red flags we must at some point respond to. Who owns our drinking water? What can happen when a bottled-water company stakes a claim on your town’s source? Is the water coming out of a tap absolutely safe? What really is the environmental factor of production, transportation and disposal of one plastic water bottle?
Politicians from all around the nation are beginning to understand that they must do something – markedly when the places where they serve are major consumers of bottled water. How often do we view a politician at a function drinking from a water bottle. Why can’t they might use a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, stated “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 place of Australia to prohibited the selling of bottled water. Some 60 places in the US and a few in Canada and the United Kingdom have now banned the spending of taxpayer dollars on bottled water.
It is doubtless that these dilemmas will be brought to the table come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the environment’s most urgent water-related issues.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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