Week 2 :]

Things that caught my attention

Story of Stuff:

I never knew that something that brought so much comfort would be a polyester blob of death, drenched in neurotoxins ._.

The Story of Bottled Water:

-"Bottled water costs about 2,000 times more than tap water"

-"Yet people in the U.S. buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week. That’s enough to circle the

globe more than 5 times."

"noticed how bottled water tries to seduce us with pictures of mountains streams and pristine nature? But guess where

a third of all bottled water in the U.S. actually comes from? The tap!"

-"making the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. takes enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars.

All that energy spent to make the bottle even more to ship it around the planet and then we drink it in

about 2 minutes"

-"bottles when we’re done? Eighty percent end up in landfills, where they will sit for thousands of years, or in incinerators, where they are burned, releasing toxic pollution"

WHOAAAA! those are some SCARY facts n statistics o___O;

After, watching these videos I realized how much our daily lives are centered around stuff and how deadly the consequences of it are. As a consumer, I feel horrible. D;

P: People shouldn't drink out of water bottles

A: its a health risk

E: plastic contains an ingredient, Bisphenol-A (BPA), that is released into the water. BPA acts as an endocrine disruptor. interferes with the chemical balance in human body.

P: We should stop producing bottled water

A: waste of energy

E: "making the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. takes enough oil and energy to fuel a million cars. All that energy spent to make the bottle even more to ship it around the planet and then we drink it in about 2 minutes"

P: bad for environment

A: great source of pollution

E: "bottles when we’re done? Eighty percent end up in landfills, where they will sit for thousands of years, or in incinerators, where they are burned, releasing toxic pollution"