The Story of Bottled Water



The video being discussed is here: https://vimeo.com/10441794


Where does that single use water bottle that you threw our just yesterday end up? In the recycling sent to a local recycle plant or maybe just thrown into a local landfill where it will sit for the next millennia? Would you have ever thought it ends up in a plant in India where it is neither recycled nor thrown into a landfill? Instead some of our local recyclables are transported across the ocean into foreign countries where it is left for them to handle.
This video expands on the issue of single use plastic bottles and the reality of what the water inside of them is and where the trash really goes. Check out this video to educate yourself and others about if it is really worth it financially or environmentally worth it to purchase those single use bottles of filtered tap water.

Comments

  1. Cristan RMarch 5, 2018 at 3:38 PM

    It's crazy to think that a small plastic water bottle could travel from California to India to just sit somewhere and not be recycled. Very interesting!

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  2. UnknownMarch 5, 2018 at 10:13 PM

    I have watched a show called "River Monsters" and seen these rivers in a couple episodes. The poor people who live and survive off of the rivers have to deal with OUR trash to live is just sad. Thanks for showing us the video as I had no idea that most of the trash in those episodes is our doing.

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  3. UnknownMarch 6, 2018 at 8:49 AM

    This is such a sad, sad reality of our consumerist world. Equally as depressing, is the “recycling” of all of the old, unwanted, used and broken electronics that are also sent over seas to often times, some of the most poverty stricken areas of the world.

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