{"id":4622,"date":"2019-10-08T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/?p=4622"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:42:01","slug":"banning-the-plastic-water-bottle-bottled-water-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/2019\/10\/08\/banning-the-plastic-water-bottle-bottled-water-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning the Plastic Water Bottle &#038; Bottled Water Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>Think about your day. How much plastic do you go through? If you start to keep track of it, it might end up being quite a lot, and quite a lot more than you want to admit to yourself. There are plastic wraps on things you purchase at a grocery store. There are plastic bags (although, fortunately, many more places are banning these entirely). And then there are plastic bottles.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, plastic bottles have been the go-to for those pass-through spots such as at a venue or while you\u2019re travelling. But where does all that trash go? Unfortunately, it\u2019s piling up in landfills, it\u2019s ending up in natural spaces, and it\u2019s filling up our oceans. In addition, creating that plastic is inherently wasteful. So stopping or reducing use of it is incredibly important.<\/p>\n<p>What do you need to know about this important issue and what can you do? This graphic from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterlogicaustralia.com.au\/blog\/banning-the-plastic-water-bottle-and-bottled-water-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Waterlogic<\/a> explains it:<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_code_0 et_pb_code et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_code_inner\"><img src='https:\/\/www.waterlogic.com\/media\/shared\/images\/blog\/banning-the-plastic-water-bottle-and-bottled-water-culture-embed.png' \nalt='Banning the Plastic Water Bottle & Bottled Water Culture' width='600px' border='0' \/><\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h4>Read the full article<\/h4>\n<p>by Mark Barber, July 2019: visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterlogicaustralia.com.au\/blog\/banning-the-plastic-water-bottle-and-bottled-water-culture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.waterlogicaustralia.com.au\/blog<\/a> for the full article covering the impact of single use plastics on the environment, animals, and people, plastic water bottle usage across the globe, and what we are doing\u2014and can do\u2014to reduce plastic water bottle waste.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13758,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4622\/revisions\/13758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gecco.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}