Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
Bear a plastic water bottle at your own demise; the sway of popular belief is going against you. From popular rating documentaries, to books and politics, the hot topic around is the horror of bottled water and the waste the industry generates.
The production, moving and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles requires big quantities of water along with energy, and produces huge amounts of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the hot new documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig claims “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 Tapped crew are plugging the documentary with their across-America roadshow, asking sponsorships from people to take down their water bottle waste and changing their discarded plastic water bottle in exchange for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
A short film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. From Annie Leonard of the well-received ‘The Story of Stuff’, this short film explores the process that is used to convincing Americans into buying more than half a billion bottles of water each and every week, compared with a few cents cost for tapwater. Check out this new documentary on You Tube.
Through her book ‘Bottlemania’, investigator Elizabeth Royte explores one of the monumental marketing takeovers of this century and gives a powerful environmental wakeup call. She explores the situations we must inevitably deal with. Who appropriates our water? What can happen when a bottled-water business stakes a claim on your town’s drinking water? Is the water that comes out of the tap entirely safe? What really is the environmental factor of producing, transportation and disposing of a single plastic water bottle?
Politicians all around the international community are realising that they must do something – particularly when the buildings at which they collate are large consumers of bottled water. How often do we see a politician in a debate sipping from a water bottle. Why can’t they should be able to use 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 place around Australia to ban the selling of bottled water. About 60 cities in the States and a few cities in Canada and the United Kingdom have stopped the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on bottled water.
No doubt these problems will be brought to the table during World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most time-sensitive water-related dilemmas.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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