Bottled Water Persuasive Speech

“Every hour in America 2.5 million plastic water bottles have a choice - end up in our landfills or get recycled! Which choice would you make?” Said by Unknown. Do you know what could happen to your body and your wallet and the world you live in? I think we should ban bottled water from Waunakee Wisconsin and here’s why……..

One reason we should ban bottled water is that 30 million bottles are consumed by americans yearly alone and only 23% for those bottles are recycled. We are almost 60% of the problem for not recycling, but we are only 4% of the world's population. That is a lot of people who are not using bottles but still have the problem others make. To make the bottles out of oil is as much as 25% of that bottle itself not even including the amount oil it takes to transport the bottle. (https://wakeup-world.com) We don’t use reusable energy to help that.

The second reason we should ban bottled water is because it can cause cancer. How? The chemical dioxins that are made in the plastic. At extremely hot or cold temperatures this …show more content…
Some brands of bottled water costs from $0.89 per gallon to $8.26 per gallon, compared to fractions of a penny for water from your tap. Says )https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org) For instance Fiji water costs $1.50 for 1 bottle while tap water costs only $0.004 a gallon. Says American Water Works Association. Now when you think about money it only goes to the hundredths place and not the thousandths but since it so cheap it’s in the thousandths place. A lot more for way less. I personally like to drink tap water better than bottled. Once I cut my lip on the plastic and it stung. On the other hand there are some good things about bottled water. One good thing is that some bottle companies sell their bottles for less during natural disasters to help when others buy for the cause. Says AidGear. For people in the disaster they’re

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