Earth Week
At my school this week is Earth week. For earth week I signed up to do a puppet show, guest read, and a slide show to show at lunch. At school there are other things like nature hikes and water tower experiments. Earth week has been going on for very long time at my school and it is a lot of fun.
So today (thursday) we watched a short video called The Story Of Bottled Water it talked all about how bottled water is just turned into pollution/plastic waste after drinking it. One of the main solutions was just stop drinking bottled water unless you must. Start drinking tap water and use reusable water bottles. Did you know that even the recycled bottles and mostly getting downcycled. Which basically means instead of using it over and over again it instead means people are just throwing it on a mountain in india. That is like someone throwing garbage into your backyard.
Earth Week has extended to 2 weeks now so today is monday. We all listened to a video called tapped. It was all about how Nestle and other famous bottled water companies have been taking OUR water and turning it into bottled water which is 1 polluting the earth and 2 there making a huge profit off of tap water. Also, bottled water is almost all tap that is just inside of plastic bottles that get thrown into water resources. I think that it is important to recognize that Coke and Pepsi are also taking our water.
Today (tuesday) we learned all about how bottled water companies will advertise and how there are so many health defects from living by a plastic bottle plants. I learned that there is oil in our bottled water. Did you know there is also benz in our water which causes cancer. If you were to live by a bottled water plant you can get different health defects. In 2007 the companies such as Dasani, Fiji, Ice mountain they made 1.1 billion dollars of of tap water by using models in commercials and said things like ‘this water will make you thinner and prettier’. Bottled water companies would say things like “ our biggest enemy is tap water” when 40% of our bottled water is tap.
Now that Earth week is starting to come to an end I would just like to sum it up a bit. First, it was so much fun learning and teaching about recycling and pollution. Secondly, I want to say that the videos where very helpful I learned all about what plastic does to our environment and how to change. This was a enjoyable 2 weeks and I hope that next year we extend it to 2 weeks too. I loved it and have to thank Mr.Farmer for working so hard on it.
-EVELYN