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PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES . CONFLICT. This is happening all over the world. What is happening is that water bottles are polluting the oceans and making mountains of bottles on land.
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CONFLICT • This is happening all over the world. • What is happening is that water bottles are polluting the oceans and making mountains of bottles on land. • Animals are affected on and off land including humans. It affects animals by the bottles getting stuck on them or they are eating the pieces of plastic.
AFFECTS FROM BOTTLES • 22 billion plastic bottles are thrown away each year if you recycled that it would turn out to be 110 billion dollars. • Plastic bottles can potentially release toxic chemicals into the ocean.
VOCAB/TERMS • Fresh water- Is affected by plastic bottles because 2 gallons of water is wasted in the making of one gallon. • Current- Makes it worse because is carries the bottles to other places. • Tide- Pushes the bottles on to the land. • Climate- Bottles affect this because the ships gas that take the bottle release the exhaust into the air. • Sewage- Bottles affect the sewage by clogging them. • Landfills- The bottles fill them up way to fast • Land recourses- The ships and cars gases that transport them affect the air and recourses. • Are health- Because BPA has been found in the bottles when warmed. • Global warming- Because the gas from the cars transporting them affect the ozone lair. • Soil- Because when they decompose the plastic bottles affect the soil.
solution • What you as an individual can do alone can do is use reusable ones or a Brita filter. • A larger group of people can ban plastic bottles from there block or community. • The companies can try and stop them.
References • http://www.allaboutwater.org/environment.html • http://www.treehugger.com/green-food/a-world-of-reasons-to-ditch-bottled-water.html • http://voices.yahoo.com/how-water-bottles-affect-health-environment-2123166.html • http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2009/01/28/f-health-bisphenol.html