B2 – Upper Intermediate
One cause for concern is the presence of plastic in bottled water. Research indicates that most bottled water contains micro plastics, which may pose health risks. Your bottled water probably has plastic in it, should you worry?
Even though water is not acidic (unlike soda), whenever you drink out of a plastic bottle, you risk ingesting the chemicals used to make the bottles as these toxins can leach into the water over time.
Watch the video and read the article to find out more about the dangers of drinking water from a plastic bottle:
https://time.com/5581326/plastic-particles-in-bottled-water/
Questions Discussions:
- Do you think tap water is better than bottled water?
- How concerned are you with plastic bottles and their use of resources? Why?
- Will this article cause you to stop buying bottled water? Why/not?
- What problem causes the greatest damage to the environment? Why do you think so?
- Were you surprised by how much Americans pollute? Why/not? How does your country compare?
- If we continue to use resources and pollute, what will the world be like in fifty years? Please explain.
3 replies on “Bottled Water Has Plastic”
Thank you for your comments and corrections @learner support!!!!
Question 1: I prefer to drink tap water than bottled water if in your city the water is good. For example water of Madrid is very good so in my house we always drink tap water, but I was living in Valladolid and in the area where I lived we had to drink bottled water.
Question 2: I try to avoid drink bottled water because in my opinion depending of the brand has taste, so always that IT is possible to drink tap water I choose it, but if i have to drink bottled water I always choose water in crystal bottle.
Question 3: I have never liked to drink tap water so when I have read this articule and watched this video I have reinforced in my conviction to avoid buy bottled water.
Question 4: unfortunately in Spain we haven’t had yet the consciousness about environment that exits in other countries with politics more developed in this sense. I think it is culture and education attitude and in my country we have still a long way to go… in my opinion it isn’t about one damage it is some different issues and mesures: use of plastics, pollution, recycle waste, use of electricity and water…
Question 5: I am very surprise, with this crisis that we have living due to COVID, how wise the Nature is and how it has influenced in our environment: animals in the cities, pollution drop, seas improvement…
Question 6: something is clear : if we want to give a good world to future generations we have to take care our planet. To get it we should be less seldom and not only think about now but also how to make the best to prepare our planet and our resources for the future, and for this, there is a personal compromise but also a government responsability: with social, culture and education measures and iniciatives.
Impressive job on this one! We like what you said, “if we want to give a good world to future generations, we have to take care [ of ] our planet.”
Let us give you an alternative on how you can express this sentence better:
I try to avoid drink bottled water because in my opinion depending of the brand has taste, so always that IT is possible to drink tap water I choose it, but if i have to drink bottled water I always choose water in crystal bottle.
> I try to avoid drinking bottled water because in my opinion, depending on the brand some of them have a strange taste, so when IT is possible to drink tap water, I choose it, but if i have to drink bottled water, I always choose water in glass bottles.
Keep up the good job.