Matthew14 : The bottom line message in the video is - where you have good drinking water, use refill bottles. And where you are concerned, buy bottled. 

We are fortunate to live in the U.S where safe drinking water is a basic human right and available to all -  and our tax money goes into it. In many countries around the world, you cannot trust tap water. Now companies want to sell products, but consumers should not make any decision out of fear (because the ads say so) but out of scientific data. So we need people who are independent and who are keeping a check on corporate power, just as we have checks and balances in the U.S government.

As for small business, in a capitalistic economy - there are always changes and people adapt. Your article on Redbox was a good example of how a corner mom&pop video store would have been replaced by Redbox and now Netflix. What next? Change is good and important for innovation.

Regarding pollution, some U.S cities offer recycling, but there are others (in the U.S and other countries) that don't have it and empty bottles go to a landfill. How plastics degrade is a topic for later time on Youngzine..