Bottled Water Contaminate The Environment

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Millions of Americans consume bottled water every day, and this has an impact because Americans contaminate the environment. Billions of bottles of water are sold every year, and this is true for the planet. People don't recycle the bottles of water, and we throw the trash in the oceans and parks. We need to do something. Americans recycle less than 25% of the plastic they could recycle. The environmental impact of bottling water is huge. Americans drink billions of bottles of water every year, which means America produces billions of plastic bottles a year. Do you know where plastic comes from? Oil. To create those bottles, we use more than 17 million barrels of oil every year. Some places have tried to ban bottled water in the hope of keeping

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