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I think it’s time we started taking notice of plastic bottles
The consumption of bottled water has grown in the past 15 years from less than a million bottles a year to more than a billion per annum.
It is estimated that about one-fifth of these bottles are thrown away with the top screwed tightly down and an average of one ounce of water remaining inside.
Given that these plastic bottles are airtight, nonbiodegradable containers, this means that the water contained inside is withdrawn from the planet’s hydrosystem for the next 10 million years.
If present trends continue, it is estimated that within the next 400,000 years, not only will all the planet’s carbon be tied up in the plastic of these discarded water bottles, but also the entirety of the world’s oceans will be locked up inside these bottles.
The result is that humans of that future era will spend their lives swimming through an ocean of plastic water bottles, continually opening bottles to scavenge water, one ounce at a time
Can you spare a dime for an old dame?
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by CyberCelt, on March 27 2008 @ 9:47 pm
Good post. Not only are we spending resources such as plastic (hydrocarbons) and water, but we are dropping bottles everywhere. Maybe in the future, people will fill the bottles with sand and build their homes with them. Stay green.