T4W5 TS Q36 – Selective High School

Why do we still allow bottled water to be sold? We don't need them anymore. The amount of plastic that's been spilled into the ocean is estimated at 270,000 tonnes. Lawmakers need to ban bottled water to save our precious seas.

Which one of these statements, if true, most weakens the above argument?

In countries where surface water is often contaminated, bottled water is the safest liquid to drink. The great pacific garbage patch, made up mostly of plastic waste, is 1.6 million square kilometres in size. Up to 80 percent of plastic bottles end up in landfills, where they take decades to break up. Some people prefer bottled water as they are concerned about the amount of fluoride found in tap water.

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Which one of these statements, if true, most weakens the above argument?