We would like to inform you about a video we recently watched.
It was about plastic water bottles and what we saw shocked us. In the video we learned so many terrible things. We learned that the bottles are made out of oil and that the average Canadian family purchases and drinks 1,000 plastic water bottles a year. Think of all the families in Ontario alone and how many plastic bottles that means.
The cost is another reason to stop buying bottled water. It costs families 2,000 times more to buy bottled water than tap water. In addition, one-third of bottled water actually comes from the tap and some tap water is healthier than bottled water.
Later on in the school day, our teacher showed my class some pictures of a beach in Hawaii that was so full of plastic bottles and other waste the sand turned into garbage sand. The birds on that beach died and scientists cut them open and the birds’ bodies were full of waste.
But it was mostly bottled water caps and bits of the bottle itself. It was really disturbing seeing those birds. The public needs to know about this danger.
Bottled water should be banned and we are going to address some reasons why it harms the environment and us.
Plastic water bottles are not biodegradable, meaning that it cannot disintegrate and become compost. Also, water bottles are not recycled; instead these are down-cycled to developing countries. Plastics like these are also thrown into oceans like the Pacific Ocean, plus, animals eat these and end up dying. In fact, as we mentioned, people have looked inside dead animals and found garbage. In some places, sea life has a better chance of finding garbage than food.
We need newspapers to help tell people about E-trash. There are three concerns on this subject. E-trash pollutes, we are throwing out too much and soon we won’t have anywhere to put it, finally E-trash is basically a killer.
You’re thinking, why not just recycle it. The problem with that is that when we recycle E-trash it gets sent to other countries. The people there have to pull all of the good things out of your old computer or phone, which then exposes them to the toxins. We can fix this if we just replace all of the chips and try not to get attracted by the new ones.
Another reason why we should be concerned about E-trash is because it’s hurting us. We are basically killing ourselves. For example, we are damaging our brains, lungs, nervous system, blood system, kidneys and reproductive systems. It could also cause cancer, which nobody wants.
In conclusion, it would be better for now and the future, to change. We hope you have learned something from our article. Remember, your city and the wildlife of Burlington are counting on you.
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