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Anyone on here "anti-bottled water"?
Wondering if anyone else on here, is against the whole bottled water
deal? To me its just a big scam and a tremendous waste of petroleum to produce these plastic bottles. Contributes to huge amounts of pollution , as maybe 1/8 of these bottles find their way to any kind of recycling. Most of it is municipal tap water. Not "pure mountain spring water". people are suckers! It cracks me up , to be on line in a store or gas station and listen to people rant and rave over the price of gas, while they are forking over a $1.75 for 12 ounces of tap water. People in NYC have been raving for years about how good NY's tap water is. How it is the best in the world. Now all of a sudden nobody can drink it, and only bottled water is good. What a load of shyte! Rant over... sorry..
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Wasteful. However, if I'm in a situation where I have to chose between a bottle of pop and a bottle of water, I get the water. I don't drink pop.
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Agreed!
It is like buying your electricity in batteries or hooking up to the power company.
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I bought one case of bottled water...give it away to friends if they're leaving here on a long drive. FWIW, Oregon recently passed a deposit law on the plastic bottles. May help reduce litter. The bottles are also recyclable at our local transfer station...a big bin that plastics go into.
As far as them being tap water? The entire story wasn't told. Tap water yes, but run through extra filtering processes, including reverse osmosis...so it does taste better than chlorinated tap water. Not that tap water is bad for you. All that being said? My home drinking water tastes quite good. So good, we usually carry a bottle of it when out & about for any length of time. Non chlorinated, it comes from a secret well hidden deep in Oregon's Willamette Valley. 
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I agree with most of your post, but tend to think that buying water in a bottle is a matter of convienence. It is healthier than a Coke and the plastic is recycleable. So it comes down to plastic vs aluminum.
We do have bottled spring water in our garage fridge, but it is used when we leave the house. We use reverse osmosis to drink at home and a refillable Brita filtered water dispenser resides in our fridge. We do recycle all our own plastic bottles and aluminum cans. |
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We have a Brita pitcher and use re-usable (aluminum) Sigg water bottles.
I heard on NPR months ago that each plastic water bottle costs a nickel to produce. When you add up the number of bottles of water Americans go through in a year (something like 50 billion?) you're starting to talk real money.
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We save the plastic water bottles and just refill them using the water dispenser in the door of our refrigerator.
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Whenever I go to NYC, we always hit some top-shelf restaurants. Some of these places are a lot like Porsches....most of the people are there just to be seen and to spend as much money as possible. Others are there because they are enthusiasts. Anyway, at some of these places there is just as much ceremony over the selection and opening of bottled water as there is over the wine. Ridiculous. I go to such places and flatly order NYC's finest - which is as stated above, arguably the best in the country. The $$$ saved is then invested in the wine selection
. Bottled water? Yeah...Dasani is a marketing case that will probably be studied until the end of time. Sheer brilliance. Truly proof that Americans will buy whatever they're told to buy.
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I always drink tap water when availabe
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I wish I had the vision to invest in some bottled water companies 20 years ago. This is the greatest scam in the history of man and I would be retired by now.
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Been a pet peeve of mine for years. We live in an area know for it's great tap water. Then, you go to Costco and see housewives with cases and cases of bottled water. I've often wanted to just bottle the well water from my house and sell it.
If somone wants to take a bottle of water on the road, put tap water in a sports bottle.
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They do add a little clorine to NYC water - the trick is to filter it, or just let it stand for a few minutes.. It evaporates out...
Otherwise, (this may be urban legend) but I have heard those clear plastic bottles release dangerous chemicals when frozen.. |
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SF has been on the forefront of this fight. They've banned those PET bottles from the city. Also banned plastic bags, another gigantic waste of energy and major cause of pollution.
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That's why I only drink beer.
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I try to stick to bottled water that has not been flouridated. You know:
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Sadly my wife sometimes buy bottled water to my chargin'.
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