Don’t join The Plastics, use reusable water bottles

Rule number one: Hydrate yourself. Rule number two: Don’t bring a plastic water bottle to school.

Sorry, but doesn’t this seem contradictory?

The two most important things a student needs are sleep and water; sleep is prohibited in school, as are plastic water bottles in science classrooms.

We don’t know if it was ignorance or just unawareness all this time, but apparently when you buy a water bottle out of the vending machine you are supporting pollution.

Ninety-nine cents of that dollar goes to the diesel fuel gas for the trucks that transport the bottles to their destination. The one cent left over goes to the harmful plastic that takes about 1,000 years to even begin to decompose.

Science teachers are changing their rules and not allowing plastic water bottles in the classroom.

The only plastic that might slide by is the refillable kind. The aim is to promote using all of our resources wisely.

This  initiative is wonderful for the planet, but it is also making it harder to stay hydrated.

Doctors recommend at least eight glasses of water a day. Without the ability to use convenient plastic bottles, students find that actually getting this much water into their system is much more difficult.

Now, when a student goes to sip on his plastic bottle, he is at risk of a teacher confiscating the bottle in an effort to discourage the the use of these “lethal” plastic bottles.

So unless you want to see your water dumped out the window without hope of retrieving it, don’t bring plastics to science class.

Students in violation of the new rule can also count on receiving a lecture on how they are supporting the extreme usage of diesel fuel. This  increases pollution, then adds to the amount of global warming, climate change, all while affecting the ozone.

Don’t  get  us  wrong; we are a very green staff and are in total support of saving our planet, but not if it makes things more difficult to be healthy. Can we really save the planet one bottle at a time?

But we do give credit to the teachers who are consistent and are doing what they can to be earth-friendly.

In a high school full of growing and thirsty students, going green is hard and staying green is even more difficult.