Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
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Bring a plastic water bottle to your own hazard; the pressure of popular view is coming back down away from you. From popular rating documentaries, to books and campaigns, the hot topic around is the menace that is bottled water and the waste that the industry generates.
The producing, transporting and disposal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles consumes huge waste of water alongside energy, and generates ridiculous amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the hot 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 their across-America roadshow, receiving sponsorships from donors to reduce their water bottle use and exchanging their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
Another short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From Annie Leonard of the acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this new film delves into the method that is used to tricking Americans into consuming around hundreds of millions of bottles of water each and every week, instead of a few cents cost for tapwater. Check out this short film on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte chronicles one of the greatest marketing tricks of the last century and gives a super environmental wakeup call. She investigates the questions we must inevitably answer to. Who has ownership of the water supply? What can happen when a bottled-water factory possesses your town’s water source? Is the water that comes from your tap entirely safe? What is the environmental cost of making, transporting and disposal of a single plastic water bottle?
Politicians from everywhere around the international community are beginning to realise that they have to do something – notably when the places in which they work are major consumers of bottled water. How often do we see a politician at a political debate sipping from a water bottle. Why can’t they might be able to locate 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 place around Australia to cease the sale of bottled water. At least 60 places in the States and a handful in Canada and the United Kingdom have recently prevented spending taxpayer money on bottled water.
It is certain that these dilemmas will be discussed come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the world’s most problematic water-related events.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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