不应该再买瓶装水的3个原因.docx

不应该再买瓶装水的3个原因3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Buy Bottled Water AnymoreI recently wrote an article about why you shouldn’t re-use water bottles. Since it was so popular, I figured I’d take it a step further. Thus, this article focusing on why you shouldn’t buy bottled water at all.我最近写了一篇为什么你应该重复利用水瓶的文章。自从其变得如此受欢迎以来，我就想着要将这一概念再推进一步。因此，这篇文章的重点就在于你不应该再买瓶装水的原因。Though you might be somewhat familiar with this topic, I bet you’ll be interested in reading about the latest reasons and research stating why you should skip buying bottled water when you go to the supermarket.尽管你可能会有点熟悉这个主题，但我敢打赌我打赌你会有兴趣阅读最新的原因，在去超市买瓶装水的时候研究为何应该跳过的研究说明。1.Bottled water costs you more in the long run.长期看来，瓶装水的成本更高We all know why we buy bottled water. It’s more convenient to grab one and go, than it is to clean and maintain a re-usable bottle.我们都知道买瓶装水的原因。比起清洗，保养一个可以重复利用的瓶子更方便拿走。While using bottled water will save you time in the short run, it will also drain your hard-earned cash in the long run. Indeed, recent studies have shown that bottled water costs around $7.50 per gallon, which is about two thousand times as costly as the water that comes from your faucet.在短时间内看来用瓶装水会节约时间，长期看来也会花光你辛苦赚来的钱。事实上,最近的研究表明,瓶装水的成本约7.50美元每加仑,这种花费大约是水龙头流出的水的二千倍。Despite that fact, we continue allowing ourselves to be bamboozled by beverage companies. From 2011 to 2012, we’ve increased our combined spending on bottled water by 6.5%, making it quite a profitable industry indeed.尽管有这样一个事实,我们还是继续允许自己被饮料公司愚弄。从2011到2012，我们在瓶装水上的消费总和已经达到 6.5%，使之成为一个相当有利可图的行业。2. Bottled water pollutes the environment.瓶装水污染环境According to National Geographic, folks purchase around half a billionbottles of water per week – in the United States alone.据国家地理杂志表示，仅在美国民众每周就购买5亿瓶水。Despite the fact that we have a much more developed municipal water infrastructure, Americans consume three times as much bottled water as Italy.尽管我们有一个更发达市政水利基础设施,美国人的瓶装水消费是意大利瓶装水消费的3倍。Unfortunately, few of those bottles are recycled, with most ending up piled high in landfills