Plastic Water Bottles

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Plastic Water Bottles

• Production
• By Arjun Vaswani
• To His Supremacy, Terence Donohue, President of
  Mbantu

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Production Process

• Uses a lot of energy to make plastic bottles
• Toxic chemicals are mixed with oil and water.
• Often native or elderly people work for the
  plastic water bottle companies which displace
  them.
• Their resource has been taken.
• Need money
• They risk their lives working in Factories with
  toxics
• Toxics in - Toxics out
• Bisphenol A

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Facts on Production

• Production of plastics has increased over 2000
  since Bakelite was first produced.
• The production of plastic emits substantial
  amounts of toxic chemicals( eg. ethylene oxide,
  benzene and xylenes) to air and water.
• Millions of dollars are spent yearly in plastics
  research, trying to find new plastics and to
  improve the existing ones.

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Effects of BPA on people

• Bisphenol A (BPA) is found in 7 PC, considered
  to be another dangerous plastic.
• Type 2 Diabetes may develop because of BPA, since
  it can disrupt the proper function of the
  pancreas and insulin production.
• The problem with BPA contamination from
  polycarbonate water containers first came to
  light in 1998
• Manufacturers have quietly substituted other,
  safer plastics for their baby bottle products
  since the BPA leaching issue.

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Effects of chemicals on environment

• Many tend to be gases and liquid hydrocarbons,
  which readily vaporize and pollute the air.
• Many are flammable and explosive.
• Ex Cancer Alley, Louisiana

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State of California

• Did you Know..as of 2003, 1 billion plastic water
  bottles per year entered the state's landfills

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PET(Polycarbonate Plastic)

• Polycarbonate plastic bottles and containers are
  identified by the plastic recycling symbol 7.
• This is used for a wide variety of plastics and
  plastic mixtures

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Production of PET

• Making a kilogram of PET, which is enough for
  around 30 one-liter plastic bottles, takes around
  3 liters of petroleum.
• More energy is then required to turn that PET
  into bottles, to filter, to ozonate or purify
  water.

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Work Cited

• Information 
• Dangers of Plastic Water Bottles.
  Livestrong.com. 2011. 14 Feb. 2011.
• Gleick, Peter H. Bottled and Sold The story
  behind our obsession with bottled water.
  Washington Island Press, 2010.
• Water Bottle Toxins. Labour Environmental
  Alliance Society. 2005. 16 Feb. 2011.
• What are the harmful effects of plastic?
  Answers.com Wiki Answers. 2011. 14 Feb. 2011.

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Work Cited

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