People in the UAE react to microplastics in bottled water
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00:00When our stationeries and you know the sweet shops and the Farzan shops used to keep only
00:19glass bottles.
00:20Those were the days when even the soft drinks used to come only in glass bottles.
00:25And now, now we know that we need to go back to the glass bottle days.
00:30So I think back then, people were right, plastic bottles being manufactured at cheaper rates,
00:36we moved on to plastic bottles.
00:38But there was a time when we were using glass bottles and I think we should retrace that
00:44path.
00:45I read the article in Gulf News today and I really not thought about this a long time
00:51but after reading the article, I thought that I will make myself aware whenever next
00:55time I pick up a bottle of water.
01:00For me, I think most of the time at home we use the bottled water and it's plastic bottled
01:06water.
01:08And this article really set me thinking about what I am providing to my family.
01:15So while we do in fact use plastic bottles at times, but I think the overall idea is
01:20to see if we can try to avoid as much as possible.
01:24So at home, we have now moved away from the typical water dispenser that we used to get
01:28in the 5 gallon format to an aqua guard and basically try to see if we can move the water
01:35from there straight away to a container which is metallic based.
01:39In certain cases, we have no other option but to compellingly buy some water bottles
01:43especially if we are on the go.
01:44To know that we are actually consuming plastic is something that many students actually buy
01:50every day and I feel that I am someone who is usually very very sustainable so I carry
01:57a metal bottle every single day but I guess it kind of makes you realize that plastic
02:04effects us more.
02:05This makes being sustainable even more important because now you can actually see or feel the
02:12kind of pollution that you are doing and you are no longer just impacting another person,
02:16you are impacting yourself.
02:18So just to make you be healthy for your own health, it is important that you use reusable
02:24plastic bottles.