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    The document discusses the history and environmental impact of plastic water bottles. It describes how bottled water originated with glass bottles in the early 20th century before switching to plastic in the late 1940s and 1960s as plastic became cheaper to produce. Now, over 37 billion plastic water bottles are sold annually in the US alone, but less than 15% are recycled. The production and disposal of plastic water bottles generates huge amounts of pollution and oil usage equivalent to over 1.5 billion barrels annually. The document calls for increased awareness of these environmental issues surrounding bottled water consumption.

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    Karina Hernández Castro

    P.h.D Ricardo Sosa


    Innovación tecnológica.
    Plastic Water Bottles

    The meaning of a bottle is portable container for holding liquids, characteristically having a neck
    and mouth and made of glass or plastic. The bottle has been the object has any liquids carried to
    the vital fluid, water.
    The perception that water was, before the introduction and implementation of the plastic was a trust
    existing faucet which in turn was supported by the glassware. This perception of water soon had
    success with in the area and later for wine production and marketing of any liquid, the
    implementation of liquid glass bottles was soon acquired by big companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo
    among others, in the early 20's, companies later realized that the process of collection, production
    and maintenance of this material was much more expensive in the food industry.
    In 1947 plastic bottles were developed, but were much more expensive. In 1960 he invented the
    high-density polyethylene, cheaper, lighter and this material was released in all the pharmaceutical
    and soon in the water industry, where large companies would soon be benefiting economically. But
    they realized that too much of this innovative material and perception of bottled water have red
    figures on the environment and soon to be a debate in the World Water Day is celebrated every
    March 22 since 1992, the controversy surrounding the use Bottled water is not new, but in recent
    years the discussion was growing so much that some people say that in a short time, drinking
    bottled water will have an image equivalent to smoking.
    Discovery Channel and The International Bottled Water Association, show the following figures:
    37 '000' 000'000 water bottles are sold annually in the United States only. It recycles less than 15%.

    25. 000 used plastic bottles and filled with sand were used by a Bolivian environmental group to
    build house walls 1 '500'00'000'000 barrels of oil just enough to equal the pollution generated by the
    global production of plastic bottles annually.
    In 2008, CNN published online expansion concerning the bottled water industry: “En el país se
    consumen unos 15,000 millones de litros de agua embotellada y casi 14,000 millones en garrafón
    al año”.
    I invite have a conscience in the consumption of bottled water, where the perception of "health" has
    to be consistent in the environment that live.
    Story of the bottle water ………. Video.
    References:

     http://www.tudiscovery.com/experiencia/contenidos/botellas/
     http://www.bottledwater.org/content/ibwa-members
     http://www.bottledwatermatters.org/
     http://blogs.tudiscovery.com/descubre-el-verde/
     http://www.cnnexpansion.com/especiales/los-monstruos-de-la-mercadotecnia-2008/bonafont-agua-por-todas-partes

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