PSA: Interesting side note I just learned about reently. DO NOT throw those bottles away with water in them, ever.
It may not seem like much water, but every bottle thrown away like that creates 'trapped water'. Those plastics take ~10,000 years to degrade. As people throw away water bottles with some residual trapped in them it prevents that water from being placed back into the water cycle.
Normally any water is consumed in some way, excreted, and filtered through soil or evaporates so that it can be recycled back into the water cycle. By creating trapped water you are essentially removing small amounts of water from the total pool our planet, and everything on the planet constantly relies upon, for thousands of years.
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u/travers329 27d ago edited 26d ago
PSA: Interesting side note I just learned about reently. DO NOT throw those bottles away with water in them, ever.
It may not seem like much water, but every bottle thrown away like that creates 'trapped water'. Those plastics take ~10,000 years to degrade. As people throw away water bottles with some residual trapped in them it prevents that water from being placed back into the water cycle.
Normally any water is consumed in some way, excreted, and filtered through soil or evaporates so that it can be recycled back into the water cycle. By creating trapped water you are essentially removing small amounts of water from the total pool our planet, and everything on the planet constantly relies upon, for thousands of years.
Please dump them out before you throw them away!
Edit: Clarity