ipl-logo

Water Bottles Persuasive Speech

580 Words3 Pages

Alexis: Good Morning and welcome to AASN Morning Show! I’m joined here today with Dr. Angie Cibic to talk about the danger of plastic water bottles and BPA.

Angie: Yes, at IHJB Science Facility we have been researching the effects of plastic water bottles for over 13 years. Our studies show that in Toronto alone over 100 million plastic water bottles are used a year.

Alexis: Wow that is a lot of plastic. Why is this so hazardous to our environment?

Angie: Plastic contains Bisphenol A, which is also known as BPA. These toxins aren’t good for earth, they aren’t sustainable. 6 in 7 water bottles used in Canada are downcycled, meaning that they are thrown somewhere out of sight to never be seen again. The harmful toxins breakdown over time …show more content…

It would be unfortunate if the poor animals would die because of this.

Angie: A really easy way to cut down the amount of plastic water bottles being used is to get reusable water bottles. Lots of people are also using charcoal based water filters to reduce the use of plastic bottles in their homes.

Alexis: oh alright, what kind of chemicals can these charcoal filters remove from the water?

Angie: The Brita filters can remove the chlorine taste from water. They filter out and remains or BPA, zinc and harmful contaminants like copper and cadmium
Alexis: Ok! I will look into getting one of those then! Well, how can the chemicals in plastic affect us humans?

Angie: Well the toxins in plastic water bottles are actually very bad for you. Nowadays water bottle companies try to use BPA free plastic, regardless there are still harmful chemicals such as DEHA,that can cause possible cancer for us humans, and benzyl butyl phthalate, which is a hormone disruptor causing possible birth defects or developmental disorders.

Alexis: Wow! I think that after hearing that we should all get rid of our plastic water bottles! If you have a plastic water bottle in your hand get rid of it right now! (throws the bottle at the camera)

Show More
Related
460 Words | 2 Pages

Synthetic Sea delves deeper into the environmental burden that plastic is placing on the oceans. It shows the effects on not only the oceans, but on animal life as well. (2) Tamara explains why she feels that tap water is superior to bottled. Some of her reasoning for this is that bottled water regulation enforcement is the job of only one person who also possesses additional responsibilities. The evidence also found that bottled water is no cleaner than tap water when tested.

Read More
626 Words | 3 Pages

From 10 bottled water brands tested by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found “38 pollutants in total, which ran from disinfection products, arsenic, fertilizer residue, plasticizers and pharmaceuticals” (“New Study” 3). “New Study” mentions the government’s requirement on water utilities to notify of any pollutants in the water, which manufacturers of bottled water are not required to do at all. If consumers do not have any idea what’s in their water, then they cannot trust that water like they can tap water. Bottled water has multiple unseen risks associated with just drinking it. These three articles bring up multiple issues created by the mass popularity of bottled water.

Read More
1677 Words | 7 Pages

Native Americans’ customs and religion relies on oral transmission rather than written texts. This allows for fluidity, as the customs can change and evolve over time along side with new technology and innovations. When Europeans first came to the Americas, they force the Natives to convert to a from of Christianity, thus, creating the long struggle as Native Americans battles with their beliefs and this new world religion. In modern times, the struggles still continue and Native Americans are still fighting to protect their customs. One such ritual that many Native Americans participates in is the sweat lodges.

Read More
416 Words | 2 Pages

BPA is used in everyday life; it’s in canned foods, plastic bottles, and paper. The controversies surrounding this mysterious element are endless, and it’s hard to figure out what the exposure of Bisphenol A can do to not only the human skin, but to the brain of a human. But first, we have to figure out what it does to animals as well. BPA acts like an estrogen, disrupting hormones of any male and female animal on this planet. Not only does it affect the animal’s hormones, it affects its brain as well.

Read More
657 Words | 3 Pages

One of the products which has become the most popular in the last century is plastic. Today, plastic is found in most of the items we own or use, everything from toys to kitchenware even automobiles. Unfortunately, plastics have a side effect that few people consider in their day to day routines. Al l plastic contains chemicals, either inherent to the creation of the plastic, or as a biproduct of the manufacturing. These chemicals in plastic can adversely affect the human body, specifically the endocrine

Read More
927 Words | 4 Pages

A Case Study on Polluter’s Dilemma I. Background/Point of View On a small plastic manufacturing, Jonica Gunson works as an environmental compliance manager. The company where she is working with is now facing a serious situation that needs to have a fast and decisive decision, decision whether to invest or not to invest money on new technology that will help decrease or as possible eliminate the level of toxic in the water which is flowing from the back of the factory up to lake. Though the company is compliant with the levels of emissions set by the Environmental Management board, the manager sees that environmental procedures for this specific toxic are sheathing behind logical evidence, particularly that there is a protest from a certain scientist that is publish in the newspaper.

Read More
336 Words | 2 Pages

Gummy Coca Cola Have you ever been home alone and tired of having nothing to do? Well, then you should make a gummy Coca Cola. Gummy Coca Colas are gummies that are shaped like a Coca Cola bottle and taste like a crisp, sweet Coca Cola. In my experiences, gummies need to be precise, so gummies need to be measured precisely. In order to create this tasty treat, you will need 8 packs of gelatin, a 500 milliliter bottle of Coke, and 100 milliliters of hot water.

Read More
1895 Words | 8 Pages

This means that 25 to 40 percent of the bottled water is not any different from the tap water only that it has been exposed to or has a high concentration of the chemicals used to manufacture the packaging plastics. Due to the pathetically primitive regulation of the bottled water, the manufacturers are not keen to inform the consumers of the contaminants that are present in their water. According to Warburton (1993), consumers are likely to drink bottled water containing contaminants such as E.coli, asbestos, giardia, bromate and many other industrial chemicals and pathogens. Arnold & Larsen (2006) indicate that ten water brands in the US had thirty-eight

Read More
541 Words | 3 Pages

While glass is fully recyclable, plastic is not something we endlessly reuse. The triangle arrow that is on our plastic bottles is actually telling us the type of plastic it is made out of. There are a total of seven different plastics and only two of them, PET and HDPE, are recyclable. The author states, “only 3 to 5 percent of plastics are recycled in any way.” Products from jackets to carpeting is what more than half of our recycled plastic is used for.

Read More
857 Words | 4 Pages

Imagine what happens if we keep on polluting our planet? What happens to our future generation? Since plastic takes years to biodegrade, if we keep polluting our environment with plastic, then our future generation will suffer from the environment around them. It also means that plastic and other trash will continue polluting the ocean, which can cause thousands of sea animals to go extinct, providing us with less source of food. Not only sea animals, but animals all over the world might extinct or become endangered because of pollution.

Read More
1800 Words | 8 Pages

Obviously the development of producing plastic went to quick and people did not think of a unified and sustainable way of how to dispose the huge amount of plastic. Unfortunately many countries decided to dispose all the garbage into the ocean but also ship accidents are a reason why so much plastic accumulated in our ocean. Every year more than eight million tons of plastic waste leak into the ocean. A big issue nowadays is that most of the plastic which is produced in one year is used to make disposable items of packaging or other short lived products that are discarded within a year (Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society, 2009).

Read More
745 Words | 3 Pages

Everyday people buy plastic things from the cafeteria, from plastic containers, lids on cups, and things as small as straws, and like 50% of plastic used it will be thrown away after one use. However, do you ever stop and think, what happens to the plastic? If you’re thinking that it just magically goes away you 're wrong. It will most likely end up in a landfill somewhere or in the ocean, and as you may think that your actions do not impact the world, think again. Everyone in the world has at least used one piece of plastic, adding to the problem of plastic pollution and helping certifying the terrifying statisticc that acooording to the 2018 Earth day video, “by 2050 there will more plastic in the ocean than fish”, which almost is impossible to think of.

Read More
879 Words | 4 Pages

According to a Biological Diversity website (https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/ocean_plastics/), the author states that “Thousands of seabirds and sea turtles, seals and other marine mammals are killed each year after ingesting plastic.” People keep littering and that littering is killing precious marine life. The level of

Read More
1413 Words | 6 Pages

Look around, and try to find an everyday object that is not made out of plastic. You should find only a few. Plastic takes up more than 75% of our everyday items… And humans are facing the pollution that plastic is causing to the earth. There isn 't a realistic solution to this, because plastic is used in automobile tires, and also is used in electronic devices, silicon etc.

Read More
722 Words | 3 Pages

Drinking Water Is the Way to Go Specific Purpose: To show to my audience the importance of water to our body and to encourage them to drink water more often. Central Idea: Many people may take drinking water for granted, but keeping hydrated can have a huge impact on overall health. Despite how crucial it is that people drink enough water, a significant amount of people may be failing to drink recommended levels of fluids each day. I.

Read More

More about Water Bottles Persuasive Speech

Related Topics

Open Document