The document discusses the negative impacts of plastic water bottles on health, the environment, and financial systems. It notes that BPA in plastic bottles causes changes in hormone levels and increased cancer risks. Plastic production uses fossil fuels and creates greenhouse gases, with over 168 billion plastic bottles used worldwide in 2006. Most plastic bottles become waste, increasing pollution. It also notes the high financial costs of bottled water for consumers compared to tap water. The conclusion calls for reducing plastic bottle usage to create a healthier and greener world.

1. PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES
ARE THEY REALLY ESSENTIAL

3. 1
DID YOU KNOW?

4. Plastic Water Bottles harshly influence our Health System…

5. Permanent changes to genital tract

6. Changes in breast tissues that pre-dispose cells
to
hormones and carcinogens

7. Increase in the weight of Prostate

8. Signs of early puberty and longer estrous

9. Decline in testicular testosterone

10. Pre-disposition of breast cells to cancer…

11. Decreased maternal behaviour…

12. Reversed normal sex differences
in
brain structure & behaviour…

13. …are some of the most severe side effects
to
our health caused by…
BISPHENOL – A
which is the one of the main additives of
PLASTIC WATER BOTTLES

14. 2
DID YOU KNOW?

15. Plastic Bottles affect our eco-systems, like…

16. …Environment
Our environment is highly effected
by the Production, Transportation,
Packaging & Disposal of
Plastic Bottles

17. …Aquifers and other water bodies
Even this is affecting
our aquifers and other water bodies,
due to which,
our ground water levels are
getting decreased
(*Aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rocks from which groundwater extracted, easily.)

18. …in the year 2006, the Global consumption of Bottled Water was…

19. 164,000,000,000
(One Hundred & Sixty Four Billion) Liters

20. …and this simply means that it would have consumed...
164,000,000,000
nearly…
168,000,000,000
(One Hundred & Sixty Eight Billion)
plastic bottles in a year

21. …from which…
90%
of plastic bottles, end up as garbage…

22. …according to environmental
think tank
Earth Policy Institute (EPI)…
1500
plastic bottles, end up as garbage
every second

23. 168,000,000,000
(One Hundred & Sixty Eight Billion)
plastic bottles, means…

24. 21,000,000
(Twenty One Million)
barrels of oil, was used to
manufacture those
Plastic Bottles

25. It clearly suggests that, an addition of
2,65,000 tons of
(Two Lac Sixty Five Thousand)
CO2 was produced while
manufacturing the
Plastic Bottles

26. …and it shows greater
developments of human kind
towards…
GLOBAL
WARMING

27. 3
DID YOU KNOW?

28. Plastic Bottles aversely affect our financial systems too!

29. …it starts from our…
Pocket
Research shows that
An average
Indian citizen spends
over Rs.15000/-
per annum on the
Bottled Water

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31. Which is
1500 times
the price of
Tap Water

32. …according to another study done by Earth Policy Institute (EPI)…
nearly
$100,000,000,000
(One Billion Dollars)
are spent every year by the consumers
WORLDWIDE, to purchase the
Bottled Water

33. …which is enough amount to revive any of the…
SINKING
ECONOMIC
SYSTEMS

34. AT THE CONCLUSION
AT THE CONCLUSION

35. …we should join our hands…

36. and say
NO
 to
PLASTIC
BOTTLES

37. and let us make this world a
A
CLEANER
GREENER
HEALTHIER
Place

38. Issued in Public Interest by