Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Bring a plastic water bottle to your own hazard; the sway of public view is coming back down against you. From big rating documentaries, to the written word and political campaigns, the biggest debate in our lives is the horror of bottled water and the waste its industry pumps out.
The processing, moving and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles demands huge use of water and energy, and produces huge quantities of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the upcoming 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 behind Tapped are publicizing the film with an across-America roadshow, taking pledges from people to lower their water bottle numbers and taking their old 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. Created by Annie Leonard of the acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short animation delves into the process that is behind tricking Americans into purchasing around hundreds of millions of bottles of water each and every week, compared with a few cents cost for clean tap water. Look up this animation on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, investigator Elizabeth Royte explores one of the monumental marketing cons of the last century and gives a strong environmental alarm. She asks the problems we must eventually understand. Who appropriates the drinking water? What can happen when a bottled-water company possesses your town’s water supply? Is the water that comes from your tap wholly safe? What is really the environmental cost of producing, transportation and disposing of one plastic water bottle?
Politicians all around the nation are beginning to realise that they are required to take responsibility – particularly when the places in which they collate are huge consumers of bottled water. How often do we view a politician in a political debate drinking from a water bottle. They might locate 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 society from Australia to prevent the selling of bottled water. About 60 places in the States and a handful of towns in Canada and the UK have now stopped the spending of taxpayer money on bottled water.
Surely this problem will be discussed during World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the globe’s most urgent water-related dilemmas.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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