Why You Don’t Need Bottled Water

Bottled water is no different than any other kind of water we use everyday but apparently, that fact didn’t stop people from buying the bottled kind. Every year, people have been buying bottled water in billions worldwide; in fact, manufacturers are still multiplying in numbers just to accommodate this apparent thirst for bottled water.

What started this craze is the notion that tap water is not safe for drinking hence the need to somehow sterilize it to kill everything that is harmful in there. Manufacturers quickly saw this opportunity and came up with the “safe” kind contained in a plastic bottle; to further make this statement clear, they sealed it for the “consumers’ safety”. However, environmentalists believe that it is only done for creating an illusion of safety; just think about all existing advertisements of clear, safe drinking water—this is the power of suggestion at work.

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Facts about Cigarette Butts

Now you’ll know why you need to quit smoking once and for all. Quitting this deadly habit is not all about you anymore; apparently, it is killing our environment as well and I am not talking about air pollution which is very apparent; this is about harmless looking cigarette butts contaminating our Earth’s marine life and poisoning fishes all over the world.

Obviously, cigarette butts are not biodegradable. Try as one might, it will not break into smaller particles; most likely, they will end up in some hungry fish’s stomach which will gradually kill the poor fish. By the way, one cigarette butt contains numerous hazardous chemicals that can kill its unknowing victim in no time. Even those dubbed as “eco cigarettes” will take time, years and even decades before they’re broken down to smaller particles. Although one small cigarette butt couldn’t very well make a large impact to the environment, consider all those butts smokers flick after each cigarette stick.

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