Welcome the the Health 1 blog. We will use this blog to share our thoughts and concerns about environmental issue we face today. As a class, we will try to develop ideas and habits that we can include in our day to day living to help our environment.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Environmental Health
Do you have any idea how many people no longer drink tap water and insist on drinking bottled water? What do you feel the greatest negative impact the "bottled water" attitude has had on our environment?
I am one of those people :) I started to drink water constantly over 15 years ago to cleanse my body. Also, because I had an addition to ice tea and soda. Everywhere I go my water bottle goes! But, I have learned how plastic that is not recycled takes awhile to decompose as well the impact that all of this plastic has had on our environment. The best I could do was just start buying it by the gallon and re-filling my water bottle. I feel at least I am not dumping all those bottles into the trash as I can go through 48 bottles of water in a 2 week period. This is a great question!
I have lived in three different places: South Jersey,Lancaster County, and Southern Illinois. I have always liked the taste of the tap water where I have lived. The bottled water craze started when I lived in Illinois. I knew many people who got water delivered in the 5 gallon jugs. The delivered water had such a high sulfer content, I found it undrinkable. I am always carrying around bottles of water,but they are the same bottles. I refill at the water fountain.
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I am one of those people :) I started to drink water constantly over 15 years ago to cleanse my body. Also, because I had an addition to ice tea and soda. Everywhere I go my water bottle goes! But, I have learned how plastic that is not recycled takes awhile to decompose as well the impact that all of this plastic has had on our environment. The best I could do was just start buying it by the gallon and re-filling my water bottle. I feel at least I am not dumping all those bottles into the trash as I can go through 48 bottles of water in a 2 week period. This is a great question!
I have lived in three different places: South Jersey,Lancaster County, and Southern Illinois. I have always liked the taste of the tap water where I have lived. The bottled water craze started when I lived in Illinois. I knew many people who got water delivered in the 5 gallon jugs. The delivered water had such a high sulfer content, I found it undrinkable. I am always carrying around bottles of water,but they are the same bottles. I refill at the water fountain.
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