9/16/13

 

        For our 30 day challenge I chose to give up plastic water bottles and just use a reusable bottle. I probably use an average of 30 or more water bottles a month and out of those 30, half of them I would lose so they are not being recycled or disposed in a way that can benefit the environment. There is about 1500 plastic bottles filling up our landfills every second. After knowing that information what kind of citizen would I be to continue to contribute to the destruction of our environment? It takes 151 billion liters of oil to produce plastic water bottles each year, all this oil being used for bottles can help to run 500,000 cars. So if I can keep using my reusable bottle and influence others to do the same I will first save my mom a lot of money and at the same time slowly reducing the damages done to the environment.

          Although my usage of plastic bottles damages the earth, using a reusable bottle can present the same problems as my plastic bottles. For example, yesterday I lost my water bottle almost forcing me to use a plastic water bottle but I did not cave in. It is not enough for just me to stop using plastic water bottles, but I have to influence others to do the same. Believe it or not we actually use three times the amount of water that's in the bottle to actually fill the plastic water bottles. So not only are we polluting the earth but we are also wasting water. Something has to be done and our solution is as easy as using a reusable bottle. Will you be the solution or problem? Reduce the amount of plastic bottles you use. Reuse a refillable water bottle, and lastly recycle the plastic bottles that you do use.