Persuasive Essay On Bottled Water

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Bottled water advertising is always alarming consumers how spoiled and dirty tap water actually is, as well as contains a lot of bacteria. Furthermore, these advertisements often fraud their consumers by saying their water is taken from mountain springs, and it is completely salutary for their health. Unfortunately, the use of bottled water is not only expensive but also harmful to health as well as the surrounding environment; however, there are some solutions to overcome these problems.

Many people believe bottled water is cheaper and safer than tap water. Having said that, the truth is entirely contradictory. As Brodwin and Pelisson (2017) pointed out the cost of one bottle water is 300 times expensive than water from the faucet. No one fully appreciates how much it costs to place a bottled water on the shelf. Companies have spent a lot of money on producing, packaging, transporting and promoting their products. That is just one of the secrets corporations want to hide, and the biggest …show more content…

No one can deny it; however, it is one of the main causes that harm the environment. Plastic bottles will become garbage right after being used. Bottled water is really thin so it can only be used once. If consumers reused plastic bottled, it would produce microplastics, which harm and go directly into the human body . According to that problem, throwing away bottled water is one of the best solution. For instance, William (2014) reported that 38 billion plastic bottles have been thrown away by Americans every year (p. 62), which will turn the Earth into a massive landfill of bottled water. Moreover, it costs a lot of money to recycle one bottled water and only a quarter of bottled water is recycled. It means other bottles will have to decompose by themselves. It takes a long time for bottled water self-decomposition. One plastic water bottle takes about 70 to 450 years to completely disappear and it also depends on the type of

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