"If you are a concerned citizen that is worried about plastic pollution,

and you have access to a well-managed pipe supply, a water supply, why not drink from that?

You know, why not reduce pollution," Gordon said.

https://youtu.be/khqzd1Lq1sI

(PBS News Hour: Plastic lasts more than a lifetime, and that’s the problem)

Our planet earth is a genuine motherland. Air, water, essential materials in the soil 

are molded into life, including human. And we live on it. Clever humans invented 

energy and other things for their civilized lives. Unfortunately, humans are threatening

the livelihood of their motherland. Plastic wastes are littered everywhere. It goes to the 

ocean flowing through river stream in addition to direct dumping. Midway island is 

in the Pacific Ocean. No people live there. But there have been a lot of plastics and 

other garbage ashore. Many birds are eating them and dead.