Does your family buy the week's groceries(杂货) including many bottled drinks into your home?
Because after having sports or hanging out under the sun, it's so cool to get a cold one right out of the, fridge, right?
Americans buy more bottled water than any other nation in the world with 29 billion water bottles a year. In order to make all these bottles,17 million barrels(桶) of oil will be used up. That's enough roil to keep a million cars going for twelvemonths.
In fact，instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into carpeting or clothing. Remember this: Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt(瓦特)light bulb for six hours.
Unluckily, for every six water bottles we use, only one is made recycling. The rest are sent as garbage. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land or in rivers, oceans.
So why don't more people drink water from the kitchen? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them, but that's not true. It can do harm to people.
So next time when you have drinks or water, please try to use a glass at home or carry water in a steel bottle.
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A. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate(分解). B. The chemicals in the bottles themselves may get into the water. C. Also, you can try to collect plastic bottles and send them for recycling. D. But all those plastic bottles use a lot of oil and pollute the environment. E. Most people choose to throw the bottles away after having the bottled drinks. |
