Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Bear a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the wave of social belief is forming on you. From top rating documentaries, to papers and politics, the hot debate in our lives is the terror that is bottled water and the waste that the industry creates.
The processing, transporting and waste of water in petrochemical plastic bottles requires tremendous quantities of water along with energy, and pumps out huge amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the new documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig sums it up “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, collecting donations from people to lower their water bottle abuse and exchanging their old plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
A similar film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. By Annie Leonard of the acclaimed ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short animation delves into the process that is behind conning Americans into consuming over half a billion bottles of water every week, instead of a few cents cost for water from the tap. Find this new film on You Tube.
With her book ‘Bottlemania’, author Elizabeth Royte demonstrates one of the greatest marketing tricks of this century and gives a sudden environmental alarm. She details the situations we must inevitably deal with. Who has ownership of our drinking water? What will happen when a bottled-water factory stakes a claim on your town’s water supply? Is the water that comes out of your tap entirely safe? What is really the environmental footprint of making, transportation and disposal of a plastic water bottle?
Politicians from all around the world are beginning to understand that they are required to take responsibility for action – notably when the places at which they collate are huge consumers of bottled water. How often do we observe a politician at a press conference drinking from a water bottle. They might locate a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, told “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 community from Australia to ban the retail of bottled water. At least 60 towns in the American states and a few cities in Canada and the UK have at this point ceased the spending of taxpayer money on bottled water.
No doubt this issue will be brought to the table come World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most problematic water-related events.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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