WATER BOTTLE POLLUTION Water bottle pollution is doing more harm than anyone knows. Indeed, it adds to the plastic consumption and disposal already in massive amounts from shopping bags and other soft drinks. What makes single-use plastic water bottles heinous is that they simply carry water. There are plenty of alternatives to carrying water and sources to get water. Unlike soft drinks, where companies actually produce a product that can easily be manufactured at home (although there are alternatives), drinking water in the US is prolific. Architects and civil engineers when designing buildings and public areas consider drinking fountains and water sources as primary consideration as much as electricity. Plus, the bottled water industry did not even exist thirty years ago. All waters, including the seas, have to be saved for the people. It must assure that the commercialization of water doesn't diminish the public benefit or that it scars the environment. Access to clean, plentiful, and low-cost drinking water is a person's right essential for human wellness and survival. Disposable and single use water bottles diminish that right and that necessity. Consider in 2005 the commercial water industry sold twenty-eight billion water bottles. Most of those were sold in recyclable polyethylene terephthalate or PET bottles. Unfortunately 15% of those twenty-eight billion water bottles were recycled, meaning twenty-four billion single-use bottles became water bottle pollution in landfills or littering our public areas. That is sixty-six million bottles added to water bottle pollution every day! Then consider the water bottle pollution once in landfills or as exposed litter. Americans annually produce over ten million tons of plastic trash, yet recycle less than 2% of that garbage. Sadly, almost every bit of plastic EVER produced exists even today. The unseen water bottle pollution includes an approximate seventeen million barrels of oil to make the bottles (plenty of oil to maintain a million automobiles traveling for a full year). Then mix in the 2 million tons of carbon dioxide to ship the bottled water. All this production and transportation equals about a quart of oil for every bottled of water produced and shipped.

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