Awareness concerning plastic bottles and their environmental impact vary with different people. Most of us fail to grasp the big picture, that the world at large is continually nudged to an inhospitable place by our society’s industrial excesses. The manufacturing of non-biodegradable plastic bottles is among those that contribute to some of our more enduring waste products. TEDed has an interesting video online that narrates the story of 3 disposed bottles; spoiler alert: two of them have bad endings— We start with their origin, these bottles are born through chemically bonding oil and gas molecules to form what are called monomers, which are then bonded into long polymer chains to form plastic pellets. They are then melted in manufacturing plants and injected into molds to form those small, durable containers to hold water or your choice of beverage. It would only take you a few minutes to a few seconds [...]
