Plastic bottles – water
2009 -Bundanoon, a small town in NSW, has banned the sale of bottled water. For a long time bottled water has been a “nonsense”. CCS did a TV segment which is aired intermittently on Chanel 31 . Bottled water was discussed as being an environmental disaster. Sandra, who spoke on the issue, had examples of water that had traveled thousands of “food miles” from France and other bizarre locations, while at the same time Australia has it’s own water export business, a precious resource we can scarcely afford to send else where!
The bottles are the main problem for our environment. In our world’s oceans there are floating “islands” of plastic where the oceans have swirled the flotsam to. Jacques Cousteau’s son spoke recently on the health of our oceans and sea life. Apart from the obvious problems with plastic killing ocean creatures and oceanic bird life through entanglement and ingestion, he also spoke of sea mammals developing breast cancer, this indicates that the level of pollution being washed out to sea, where it is thousands of times diluted by sea water, must be significant!
Banning plastic into the environment is one way we can ALL make a difference immediately.
CCS is asking all members to voice these concerns and actively refuse to use plastic bottles where ever possible. Stopping buying bottled water is an easy way to reduce demand. Our Melbourne tap water is good drinking water, it really is unnecessary for anyone to purchase water in bottles.
Together we can change the World! To see some images of plastic in the environment, click on the text below.This “click to progress” series of images is a graphic account of why we should all stop using bottled water for convenience or status. Unfortunately it is American in origin – but is none less true for that.
This material comes courtesy of the group solar fast track.com
Keep the message alive for the need for radical changes – now while everything is “up for grabs” is absolutely the RIGHT time for changes to be made for a sustainable future.
