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
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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)
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.
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Plastic pollution in the ocean Introduction Rachel L. Carson said in her book “Water, soil, and the earth´s green mantle of plants make up the world that supports the animal life of the earth” (63). In other words, our planet was always a place which was dominated by nature and it had essential relations between plants and other plants and between plants and other animals (Carson, 1962). Since the modern human started to conquer the world a lot of things have changed and technology has taken over. My essay is about a quite new but very big problem which affects our wonderful planet; it is about plastic in the ocean.