I think reusable water bottles might be the easiest and one of the most effective ways to lower the amount of waist humans produce. The amount of plastic water bottles that end up in the ocean and land fils is inconceivable. Not only is it much better for the environment in every way possible that people reuse their water bottles, but it is also cheaper to just reuse your bottle instead or buying new ones. If everyone uses a reusable water bottle it would dramatically lower the amount of waist put into the environment on a global scale.

I agree, it can take 450 years for a plastic water bottle to biodegrade and even if everyone in the world just  only used one plastic water bottle a year then there would be 7 billion new plastic water bottles every year .worldhttp://www.miwaterstewardship.org/youth … atsgarbage

Reusable water bottles are one of the most efficient ways to help the environment. At Bishop O'Dowd High Shcool, the sustainability department is always encouraging the community to procure reusable water bottles in order to reduce the amount of litter and plastic on the school campus. By doing this, we will create a sustainable environment that not only exists now but can reserve carrying capacities for future environments.

Reusable water bottles are better because instead of buying multiple bottles because it takes 450 years for one plastic water bottle to break down. By people trying to speed up this process they use machines which produce gas which is not good for our world.

Very Good Malia! I really like this idea because it is a common issue throwing away water bottles over and over and over again. If they don't get to the trash can, they will make it to the ocean and harm animals! Tragic

Reusable water bottles are great for the environment because they do not get in the ocean as much as plastic ones do. There are tons of plastic water bottles and the ocean and we would like that to stop right now. Reusable water bottles are with you forever and it would be great to reduce the plastic ones.

According to  Hydrate Life, "Once you bottle and pack up all that water it needs to be transported, adding to pollution and global warming. When you think about where some of the water comes from, say Fiji water that comes from…wait for it…Fiji, and is then flown or shipped around the world you can start to see how much pollution can be attributed to bottled water transport." Also, plastic causes a lot of pollution in the ocean. The Great Pacific patch is a patch of trash in the Pacific Ocean that is about the size of Texas. It is mostly filled with plastic, and it is killing sea life inhabitants. If we used reusable water bottles, not only carbon footprints would be reduced, but there would be less pollution in the ocean.  [Carbon](//muut.com/u/footprint/s2/:footprint:45zR:carbon.2.jpg.jpg)

See the image in the above comment for what happens when we use plastic and it goes into the ocean.
(the below link is just a website, not an image)
http://www.hydratelife.org/?p=767