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The Story Of Bottled Water | Promoting Filtering Water At Home
A short film called The Story of Bottled Water by Anne Leonard was released Thursday, which was World Water Day. Leonard, with the help of The Story of Bottled Water, is showing people how corporations are manipulating Americans to spend extra cash on half a billion bottles of water every week though just about every single person in this country can get it for free. What has now become a $ 5 billion-a-year industry and in chorus threatens public health and the environment is the "Purified" bottled water.
On World Water Day
Anne Leonard said in an article on HuffingtonPost.com that she chose World Water Day to release The Story of Bottled Water because World Water Day is:
"a good day to pause and consider the insanity of a global economy where 1 billion people lack access to safe drinking water while other people spend billions on a bottled product that's no cleaner, harms people and the environment and costs up to 2,000 times the price of tap water."
In The Story of Bottled Water, Leonard compares spending money on bottled water to buying a shrink-wrapped sandwich made by unknown hands costing $ 10,000. She blames multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns commissioned by industrial giants like Coca Cola and Pepsi and Nestle to make Americans afraid to drink tap water.
Toxic chemicals in bottled water
The Story of Bottled Water points out that while people may think they are drinking purified water, it is often no safer than the water coming from the tap. It can also be less safe. Toxic chemicals from the plastic in the bottle can leach into the water inside.
According to a report on mindfully.org, water bottles are made from various plastics, including a chemical that leaches into the water in the bottles to some degree, the Bisphenol-A (BPA). Bisphenal-A, it turns out, is a hormone disruptor that mimics estrogen and is linked to early onset puberty, declining sperm counts, obesity and breast and prostate cancer. Five leading manufacturers of baby bottles containing Bisphenal-A were slapped with a billion-dollar class action suit in March 2007.
Filtered water at home
Leonard reveals that bottled water costs up to 2,000 times more than tap water, yet nearly 50 percent of bottled water is simply filtered tap water. Consumers can filter their own water at home using products costing anywhere from $ 15 to $ 120. Many other facts about bottled water that Leonard calls "inconvenient" truths are listed in The Story of Bottled Water:
- Bottled water is subject to fewer health regulations than tap water.
- Municipalities often need money loans to cover more than the $70 million it costs to landfill water bottles alone each year, according to Corporate Accountability International.
- Making the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. takes enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars, not including the fuel required to transport the bottles from the factory.
Use metal water bottles
The Story of Bottled Water, however, does see a bright side to its argument.
Leonard says that fewer people spend money now on bottled water - sales fell slightly in 2009 for the first time ever. More people are using reusable metal water bottles, passing on bottled water at the store and filtering their own water at home. Steel or aluminum water bottles cost anywhere from $ 5.95 to $ 19.95. Definitely out beats a $ 10,000 sandwich.
At your service in the Stratton Student Center: one Greenbean recycling machine (MIT)
Can you guess who this is? A 2010 MassChallenge finalist, prone to crushes,
into gaming and analytics, with a green consciousness and charitable leanings.
That would be Zoe. If you hang around the Student Center, you’ll get to know
Zoe. She’s creating a few crushes of her own.
Zoe is the Greenbean recycling machine near the stairs on the first floor of
W20. Part of a pilot program sponsored by the MIT Department of Facilities,
Zoe is taking community recycling to the next level.
Let’s say you feed Zoe an aluminum soda can. She is smart enough to know
several things:
* _That it’s aluminum, not plastic or glass_. She’ll crush it and put in the
aluminum bin in her interior and when that bin is full, she’ll notify
Facilities.
* _Whether or not the can is eligible for a 5 cent refund_. If it is, she’ll
deposit that money in the account you’ve specified, whether it’s TechCash,
PayPal, or a charity like the Nature Conservancy or education programs at the
MIT Energy Initiative. If the container isn’t eligible for a refund through
the Massachusetts Bottle Bill — for example, bottles for ...
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