You are getting thirsty and need to drink water so much so that you feel dehydrated. And the water that you have access to doesn’t seem to qualify as safe. You visualize the effects of the harmful substances that reside in the unsafe water. You do not have an iota of doubt, that this is not the water you want to drink. So you walk out to the supermarket and buy one of those attractively packaged water bottles, break the seal, and consume the much craved contents and filling your thirst pangs with satisfaction that no harmful substances have traveled along with the clean water. For all you know, you may have just consumed water that is affected by much more noxious substances than you had imagined. After you are done drinking and emptying the contents, you now proceed to make another mistake. You responsibly dispose of the bottle, however you have added to the ever increasing number of plastic bottles reaching the landfills. You have now contributed to the detriment of the eco-system. Are you still wondering how?