Ways how bottled water ruin the environment and your health

Bottled water is made up of plastics. Plastics can be a cause of drastic pollution in our environment. According to the studies about plastic, plastic that we use every day will take 10-1000 years to decompose and 450 years and up those plastic bottles. Plastic bottles has really big effect in our environment. Plastics is one of the major causes of pollution in  our environment, because there are a lot of people burning plastics that cause air pollution, there are also a lot of people who are throwing plastic bottles in the bodies of water that causes water pollution. This problem is continue to grow, because of the irresponsible use of the people, as well as the different manufacturing companies of plastics are producing more and more plastics. According to the recent study, there are about a billion of bottles added to the world’s growing plastic pollution problem each year. This problem will be solve immediately if every individual will contribute in changing our ways. Yes plastic bottles are very convenient for us, but in the long run there is a big effect in our environment. There are a lot of ways on how this bottled water ruin our environment. Here are some of the ways on how bottled water ruin the environment:

1.       Plastic bottles can raise your blood pressure. Plastics are made of chemicals and other synthetic materials that is harmful to our health. This chemicals sometimes cause high blood pressure. In a recent study examined the effects of bisphenol A, or BPA, a chemical compound found widely in water bottles and soda-can linings. BPA has been associated with everything from heart disease to lowered sperm counts in men. In this study, people who drank from a BPA-lined container experienced a rise in blood pressure within two hours. People who drank from a BPA-free glass saw no change in blood pressure. Recently, bottling manufacturers have been moving away from BPA and switching to the “safe substitute” bisphenol-S, or BPS. But new research is showing that BPS could cause its own health issues, including hyperactivity. Both of these chemicals will cause harmful effects in our body and most of the chemicals in the plastic bottles and it is very harmful in our health. Maybe now you will not be affected by this chemicals, but sooner there will be a possible harm in our health.

2.       Bottled water probably isn’t as clean as tap water. Manufacturer and the bottled water industry is saying that there water are fresh from the mountain or it is very clean and free from any harmful substances, but actually not these bottled water still have substances that is bad for our health. We can’t make sure that the water inside the bottle are clean, because we don’t even know how these bottled water are being processed. The label on that plastic water bottle may say “triple-purified, virgin water source,” but in the United States, the water-bottling industry is nowhere near as strictly regulated as your local tap is. That’s because the Environmental Protection Agency oversees tap water safety, while the Food and Drug Administration regulates bottled water. Simply put, one government agency has more power than the other. While local water agencies regularly test tap water and release the results to the public, a survey of 188 bottled-water brands found that only two made that kind of information available to the public.

3.       Billions of bottles are adding to the world’ pile of plastic debris. One of the biggest problem in every country around the world is how they will decompose or how they will dispose these plastic bottles that will not cause harm to our environment. According to a study it will take 450 years to decompose the plastic bottles. But there are country that is recycling plastic for more useful ways, but unfortunately this is not happening in all countries and not all plastics are being recycled, because of its harmful effect. For example in the United States 12% of the 32 million of plastics are being recycled each year and the remaining 88% can’t be recycled and wait for it to be decompose. A study also states that there are about 10 million of gallons of water we consume every year and only one of every five bottles are being recycled.

Plastics has a very drastic effect in our health and in our environment. This problems in our environment is very hard to stop, because if they will continue to manufacture plastic. The only solution of stopping this problem is to stop the production of plastics and find other things that we can used. In our health it is very harmful, because of its chemical content, what we can do is to use safe bottles that will not compromise our health.