My hometown city of Seattle recently decided to stop buying bottled water, which is probably somewhat of a bane for the company that sold it to them, for $58,000 a year. Seattle mayor Greg Nickles said
“When you add up the tremendous environmental costs of disposable plastic bottles clogging our landfills, the better choice is crystal clear.”
How many of the 2 million plastic beverage bottles (the number used in the U.S. every five minutes) in this artwork are water bottles? You can see a zoom in on this image here and here .
Do you drink bottled water? I have a good friend from Australia who only drinks bottled water because she claims tap water isn’t safe. Whenever she visits, she simply won’t drink the tap water, and buys a lot of bottled water. I can understand this. Earlier this month, for instance, an Associated Press investigation found trace amounts of prescription and over the counter drugs in the water supplies of 41 million Americans in 24 major cities.
On the other hand, my friend Byron, also from Australia, argues the other direction
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