In 2017, 13.7 million bottles have been consumed by Americans. About 70 percent of those water bottles aren't recycled. You probably already know that plastic bottles that aren't recycled, end up in land fills, bodies of water, etc. Plastic water bottles also uses our natural resources like petroleum crude oil which then pollutes our environment through degradation or even in the process of making the plastic, overall causing a large disturbance to our planet through climate change and pollution. In addition to plastic water bottles being harmful to the environment, banning plastic bottles encourages money conservation and breaks down the 1 and the 99 discrepancy with the plastic bottle industry. The plastic water bottle industry is increasingly taking money from consumers through just bottling water in plastic bottles. The average price of water in the United states is about 1.50 per 1000 gallons tap . Bottled water costs around 2000 times the amount of regular tap water. For example, there are incentives of buying cafe restaurant's reusable bottles or cups and the consumers receive discounts for reusing. Also in certain grocery stores, they offer discounts for reusable bags. Banning plastic bottled water saves money I understand that some places don't have those clean water sources to switch off from plastic bottles but the ban could take action after a development of a clean water source. Alternatives to bottled water could be reusable water bottles, or an increase in water stations fountains for public use Change my view.
Plastic bottled water should be banned.