Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Take a plastic water bottle to your own demise; the pressure of popular belief is going away from you. From top rating documentaries, to books and political campaigns, the hottest news in town is the problem around bottled water and the waste its industry forces.
The production, transporting and disposal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles requires huge waste of water alongside energy, and creates ridiculous measures 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 team of Tapped are pushing the film with an across-America roadshow, asking sponsorships from people to reduce their water bottle waste and changing their used 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 Annie Leonard of the critically acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this new film shows the process that amounts to convincing Americans into buying at least five hundred million bottles of water every week, despite the option of a few cents cost for a drink from the tap. Look up this documentary on You Tube.
In her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte explores one of the most massive marketing cons of the twentieth century and demands a strong environmental alarm bell. She asks the situations we must eventually deal with. Who appropriates the drinking water? What happens when a bottled-water factory seizes your town’s drinking water? Is the water coming from a tap wholly safe? What is really the environmental factor of producing, transportation and disposing of one plastic water bottle?
Politicians from everywhere around the nation are beginning to understand that they are required to start the campaign – especially when the places where they work are large consumers of bottled water. How often do we see a politician at a press conference drinking from a water bottle. Why can’t they should be able to find 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 in Australia to prevent the selling of bottled water. About 60 townships in the United States and a handful of cities in Canada and the UK have recently ceased expending taxpayer dollars on bottled water.
It is doubtless that these issues will be debated at World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the environment’s most time-sensitive water-related events.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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