Bottled water ban

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Maybe I'm odd but all the bottled water I've ever used tastes awful.
Plus, I hate lugging the stuff around. Transporting on a bus is no fun either.
I'll stick to our tap water.

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sara,

No issues with using alternatives, as I try to when possible as well.

I've got no issues with doing what you can for the environment, (as evidenced by the money I just dumped into a more efficient heating system), I just take issue with the scare tactics used to promote environmentally concious living.

I am not sure what you consider "scare tactics"???? Just the truth about what is happening with the enviornment is scary enough.

I take issue with people thinking that because something is recyclable or made from renewable resources (as in paper) that there is no cost to the environment. People tend to overlook the cost of recycling or the cost of producing the product from a renewable resource. Producing paper consumes a huge amount of water and electricity for example.

And if telling people to recycle is all it takes, wouldn't this be a great world!

[Barbara]

Bottled water here comes in glass bottles that are re-used, not just recycled. We have this kind of bottles since I was a kid. With beer it's the same.
When I was a kid, your vintner took his wine bottles back as well. We went to close-by Alsace, bought our supply and brought the bottles back next time.
Of course there are now PET bottles as well. Especially for French mineral water and for all the sizes you buy in aiports etc.
They are recycled.

[Lady's Human]

Barbara, If you send me a case of good German beer I promise to send the bottles back for a refill!

[wombat2u2004]

HAH !!!! Now there's an offer you can't refuse Barbara. LOL

[Barbara]

I've not seen much offer in it

[columbine]

It seems like a good idea to me. People still equate waste with "prosperity" and think recycling's for kooks and poor people. I suppose you could institute a return charge on water bottles like they do on pop bottles & beer cans, but they'd have to fight the distributors all over again.

Love, Columbine (who's discovered that fabulous bit of technology, the seltzer bottle - but can't convince her city to recycle the empty steel charger capsules!)

[Karen]

Columbine, even if your city won't recyce them, call a scrap metal place - they might.

[Lady's Human]

A scrap dealer will take any steel. They may not pay you for it (Steel/iron are less than $.01/lb), but they will get into the recycling stream.

[Jessika]

In the long run I can see how it would be cheaper having your own water purification system... however, has anyone TASTED my tap water?? It tastes like pool water. Downright nasty. Now I can't usually stand water to begin with, but at work I have been forcing myself to drink more during shows from the culligan and must say it's not too bad. But then I get home, and won't drink tap water even if my life depended on it. It's THAT bad.

[Lady's Human]

Jessika,

I know that feeling all too well. The water in OK is no better.

When I go out to OK, regardless of how I get there, the first trip I make after checking in at the hotel is a run to get water. Pool water would be a polite description of the water there.

[smokey the elder]

IF PET bottles were recycled, it wouldn't be so bad. Most of them end up in landfills. The bottles, when full, are heavy and cost a lot of money to transport. They had a thing just last night on the news trying to quantitate the "footprint". I'm all for the refill at your faucet plan, but I have good water where I live. Perhaps if bottle bills included water bottles (they typically do not) this may be a solution short of an outright ban.

As far as the leachable additives, it's highly unlikely. PET needs no process additives to be molded; it is what is called an "amorphous" polymer and when heated to a certain temperature, it becomes like soft taffy, and can be shaped any way. PVC (vinyl) is what has tons of phthalates, these are needed to make it soft, and there MAY be a link between these molecules and cancer.

So much for the chemistry lesson!

[Sevaede]

Wow! What an interesting thread!

Here in Oregon we have bottle and can deposits. They are refundable. Soon, it will be the same for bottled water.

[ratdogg]

I'm a simple person, but I like the huge 5 gallon jugs upside down in the cooler. I like pouring a glass and watching the bubbles go up

[wombat2u2004]

I'm a simple person, but I like the huge 5 gallon jugs upside down in the cooler. I like pouring a glass and watching the bubbles go up

Me to....that is just so cool.
I sometimes imagine what it would like look with a few goldfish inside.
Wom