Bottled Water Essay

Recently, I watched the movie Tapped and it points out many interesting things. Water companies don’t have to give their condition reports of their water to the public while tap water is constantly regulated by the EPA. Another thing it pointed out was just how many contaminants are found in bottled water. There are many hazardous things in the bottles that people drink from everyday and most of us don’t realize how dangerous this is to us. It also pointed out the damage that these bottles have on the environment after they are thrown away. Bottled water is quickly destroying our environment and most of our population are merely shrugging it off. They believe that the problem is for later generations to figure out when the time comes, but they don’t see
The water bill is basically charging extra for the bottle and returning that charge to you when you return this bottle. This is the incentive for recycling plastic bottles or even glass bottles. However, out of these 11 states, only 6 of them include bottled water. If the government passes this water bill for every state and included plastic water bottles, it would greatly increase the amount of these bottles being recycled. With more bottles being recycled, there will be far less of them going in oceans and building to the damage of our environment.
To manufacture a plastic bottle, the cost usually varies from 1 to 3 cents. Not dollars but cents. In the US, the cost is about 2 cents, including the fuel and labor required to make the bottle. Water companies know how much plastic negatively affects the environment, yet they continue to make it for the profit. The government must know about these terrible effects that plastic has on our world, so why haven’t they increased these costs for plastic manufacturers? The cost of products needed to make plastic must be increased in order to reduce the amount of plastic bottles being made