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INTRODUCTION

Do you love this planet’s wild lands as I and so many others do? I’ll bet you do. Otherwise you probably wouldn’t be paying any attention to this blog.

You’re undoubtedly well aware of and concerned about the threats to our precious environment. The air, the land and the sea as well as the living things that inhabit them, including you and me, are at risk due to pollution and neglect.

So, an appropriate question to ask is: “What can I do about it?”

Well, most of us can’t do a great deal about reversing the ongoing damage to our home called “Earth”. But, each of us can do a number of small somethings. And, these small acts become significant when we pool our efforts.

REUSABLE WATER CONTAINERS

Here’s one thing you can do. Switch from disposable to reusable water bottles. This change in behavior, if you haven’t already made the switch, will have a very positive impact on the environment by diminishing what get’s thrown away.

But, there are other implications as well. Would you believe economic, political and even military implications?

Economic implications aren’t that hard to figure out. Disposable water containers have a cost that can be reduced by going reusable. Of course, reusable containers cost as well, but the cost is spread out over time as you keep reusing it. This makes the cost of the reusable item less over time than the total costs of the disposable items that it has replaced.

Throw-away plastic bottles are a huge burden on our planet and environment. Every year between 15 and 25 billion plastic water bottles are added to the nation’s landfills.

But, you say, “I recycle my water bottes.”

That’s great, but half to three quarters of these bottles don’t get recycled and end up as trash. In addition, whatever we recycle will eventually end up in the land fill. By reducing materials for manufacturing water containers, we reduce the overall waste burden on our environment.

What about political and military implications? Well, Plastic comes from petroleum, and to the extent that we reduce the volume of petroleum needed to make plastic objects, we reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Now, I’ll leave it up to you to extend this logic to the political and military implications of going green and using reusable water bottles.

Changing from the disposable to the reusable is a small and perhaps seemingly insignificant act. But, over time and with a cooperative effort, the impact can be very significant and positive for our planet earth.

Go green! Go reusable!

Richard Davidian
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