Stop buying it now before the neighbors begin blaming you for their sunburn and the high price of gas. Great cartoon from Greenberg and the Ventura County Star.
ByRocky Thompson
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PET bottles are easily recycled. Japan recycles theirs with great success. Still, at home, I don’t use bottled water. However, when traveling, it’s difficult to get water any other way. I guess I could knock on stranger’s doors. I’ll let you know how that works out.
PET bottles may be easily recycled, but in the US anyway, they rarely are.
There are few occasions when you’d have access to bottled water and not some source of tap water, so carrying a nalgene bottle usually works fine. Bottled water has its uses, but it’s doesn’t have 28 billion bottles worth of uses…
bryantp - c’mon. We all travel. Ever seen a drinking fountain? Guess where it comes from? Yea, same place as a tap. Get yourself a nalgene, or better yet a Klean Kanteen and cut the excuse. Until people like you and me start to get a little inconvenienced and change the status quo that is our lives little to nothing will change to help the planet.
Only 3 tons of CO2? I guess they aren’t including the fuel and subsequent CO2 from transporting the bottled water. 3 tons for the entire industry isn’t even worth mentioning.
I don’t really care about the carbon angle, I just have a problem paying for something that has many sources around me that are free or very close to free. I drink it from the tap or through a filter but never from a bottle for $$$.
I really like bottled water.
If you compare the wrapping of a chocolate bar, a chewing gum or a sandwish wrapping from a usual store by the Highway, everything is excessive, including bottled water, pop, juice, etc.
But how many gas station, fastfood restaurant or even goverment rest areas offer a recycling bin next to their garbage can? You can say dont drink bottle water when traveling. But that’s exagerated. The fumes from your exhauts for 1km is worst and nobody says stop travelling…
Please recycle your tapped bottle water when traveling.
Epic discussion.
BTW, at home, I don’t use bottle water… unless I get stuck without practical options. I tried carrying the Nalgene bottles…it works well when I’m on vacation and have time. It wasn’t very convenient when I was traveling on biz and rushed.
I don’t disagree with the premise but I wan’t to point out that I would never rent a Hummer while traveling but sometimes find few choices to bottled water. Paraphrasing an old commercial, “Don’t hate me because I’m thirsty.”
In Ann Arbor, MI they have banned bottle water from the downtown area, due to the misuse of bottling plants around the great lakes area. I use bottled water once in awhile, but I keep the bottles and refill them or recycle them.I can see why people choose to use bottle water but we need to be more aware of it’s source.
http://www.autobloggreen.com/2007/07/16/ann-arbor-moves-to-ban-bottled-water-sales-from-city-events/
http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/coverstory/red-110707-bottledwater-ban,0,2481538.story
Read this one about the misuse of water wells and reduction of the great lakes:
http://www.mlui.org/landwater/fullarticle.asp?fileid=16596