Just for worldwide consumption of bottled water in 2004 alone it took roughly 87.4 million barrels of oil. You can imagine that with statistics for 2008, we have a figure in the hundreds of millions of barrels of oil being used just to produce bottled water. Don’t buy water in plastic bottles, water is free!
America and the worldâs addiction to plastic doesnât end there. Plastic bags take oil, just like plastic bottles to produce. Currently the U.S. consumes 100 billion plastic shopping bags in a year and worldwide consumption is estimated to be from 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags a year. That is roughly 1 million plastic bags a minute being consumed and less than 1% is recycled. If we legalize hemp we could make bags from a profitable and sustainable source and avoid wasting all that oil and energy making “trash that lasts forever.”
I guess it’s okay to pollute our waters now because, “we can $ell them clean water in a pla$tic bottle.” Clean water is a right, not a commodity to be exploited. I bet next they will try to $ell us air and fire and dirt.