Los Angeles and San Francisco have banned city funded purchases of plastic bottled water. Chicago may soon follow suit. New York has started a campaign ”Get your fill” that provides residents with reusable stainless steel cups for free if they pledge not to buy water in plastic bottles. Several companies have admitted they use the same water sources to fill their plastic bottles that supply your kitchen and back yard water hose. They use exotic names to get you to buy their water even though it’s the same water that comes from your water tap.  Furthermore, refrigerated trucks that transport all this water use gas and contribute to polution. 

Even if we do recycle. The recycling of plastic waste can only save a limited amount because recycling also uses an excess of resources. We can avoid buying plastic and solve this problem. This includes all plastic wrapped products. Buy everything possible in glass and paper. Avoid buying plastic storage containers and use glass or crockery. Glass can be recycled to resurface roads and has many other uses. Glass is not a waste problem. It is a natural product. Paper is also biodegradable, unlike a plastic bottle which takes 1000 years to biodegrade. We have better uses of our limited resources than the making of plastic.

Can we blame other countries for calling us “The Ugly Americans”? Plastic water bottles are one case in point. We have perfectly good water already paid for, coming from our taps, and we buy water in plastic bottles to drink. Why! Is it just something else we can spend money on? Every where we look there are ads urging us to Buy! Buy! Buy! Look around your house.  Do you see things that clutter your home that you don’t need? How many unnecessary items do you see? What could you live without and not really miss ?

What do you need to live well anyway? A roof over your head, food, clothes, a job and a way to get to work. That is the necessities. Everything else is excess. How many of us owe on credit cards that will take years to pay off? New cars? Expensive clothes? ןPpods? Entertainment of all kinds? We add to the debt every day with items we can’t do without but are unnecessary. Let us all be sensible and live within our means and be known as a country that governs itself with propriety and nourishes the natural resources for all the world’s population. All we need do is take care of our own house.

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