Erin VanTine
Erin VanTine
Michelle Lawrence
English 111
24 November 2009
Water, anyone?
Not many things bother me; I’m fairly laid back and don’t have many pet peeves. The sound of people eating cereal or apples, people not using manners are only a few, but my biggest pet peeve most people don’t even realize they are doing it. Most people don’t even give it a second thought. My all-time biggest pet peeve is plastic water bottles. The biggest waste of money and resources there is. Why people spend money on bottled water is beyond me.
I chose to do my project on this because I wanted to get the word out there and try and get more people to use reusable water bottles. People try and do their part but by recycling, and trust me, I’m all for recycling, but recycling takes energy too. And to make matters worse only 20% of disposable water bottles end up being recycled (Chameides). I wanted to get the word of this out to the public in an effective manner, that was easily accessible and something that would really make in impact. What impacts me the most is the facts and statistics of the industry and so I was thinking I should do something with these said facts. Some of the facts include how most Americans have access to clean water for only pennies a gallon but many choose to buy it by the bottle for 100 times the price (Chameides) and how bottled water isn’t just a waste of water but a waste of petroleum for mass transportation. At first I though I should do flyers around campus, malls, public restrooms, but then I took a step back and realized, ‘Flyers?! How is that sending out a Go Green message??’ I figured a. flyers don’t last very long outside (with rain, snow, wind and all the other elements, along with people ripping them down) and b. if they were passed out to the public I’m willing to bet most people would glance down at it and skim through it before tossing it in the nearest trashcan (note: the paper wouldn’t even get recycled, let alone the water bottles!). So then I thought okay I could do a video P.S.A-type thing but I don’t really know how to record let alone work a video camera or an e-mail message with maybe a few pictures and a couple of the facts the really hit it home and make people think about their choices. I decided to go with the second option.
My intended audience is anyone and everyone, because everyone can make a difference. I figured hypothetically I would send out an e-mail to a group of students, like the class or the whole campus, and then hopefully the e-mailed would get passed around like all those other annoying forwarded messages. I figure if it got to enough students it would eventually reach students at other campuses and families of those students and hopefully it would make a difference and get people to stop and think about the wastefulness of their ways.
As I started to compose the e-mail, I started with a picture and followed with some facts. I thought it would be neat to carry this idea throughout the paper and have a picture, followed by a fact, followed by a picture and etcetera. I thought this was a good way to get my point across, because pictures are appealing and most people when they see a picture would want to read what is written under the picture, which is what I wanted my readers to do. I thought this worked well. I used a big bold font so it could be easily read, I used green accents because green is the color used most often with the environment. I used capital letters to portray a serious feel, and to create some sort of fear factor (kind of like yelling). I think that e-mail would be most effective because e-mails are passed around so quick and easy, my e-mail would soon reach double the amount I originally sent it to. Overall, I’m satisfied with my project, and the message that I hope to get across.
Works Cited
"About Home Tap Water Filtration." . Food and Water Watch, Web. 19 Nov 2009.
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Chameides, Dave. "Enough With The Plastic Water Bottles." Care2. 16 Sep 2008. Care2, Web. 16 Nov 2009.
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Davis, Eliza. "INNOVATE." innovate.. 07 Jul 2009. WordPress, Web. 19 Nov 2009.
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"The US Consumes 1500 Plastic Water Bottles Every Seconds." Treehugger. , Web. 12 Nov 2009. .
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