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Great point , I don’t use bottled water ever I think its over rated
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- PepsiCo, Inc. must package Aquafina water in biodegradable plastic bottles
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If we reach exactly 50,000 people, then we will take our business elsewhere
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Aquafina was the fastest-growing brand of bottled beverage last year. Consumers of Aquafina bottled water care about the environment. Many have asked PepsiCo, the owners of the brand, to begin using a more environmentally responsible packaging. Biodegradable plastic technologies that would work exist today, but PepsiCo chooses to take the easy route and do nothing, shifting the burden onto us, the consumers.
Americans drank 615 million gallons of Aquafina last year at about $4 per gallon. We estimate there are 50 million Aquafina drinkers, typically drinking 100 gallons annually, or spending $400 per year on Aquafina.
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Can you pass this around so that i can make my website? If my website makes it before your campaign does, I’ll post it on my website. I need the money mainly for advertising but i still need to get it going. its an earth friendly web site. with tips on how to protect our planet. so can you spread this?
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It starts free and flitered and comes from fountains and is chilled. Then they charge a buck for it. The profit margins are unprecedented, even better than French fries.
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Douglas Morey replied on Mar 26, 2010Perhaps the real mission here to affect change, instead of switching from Aquafina to Dasani when enough people sign up, would be to have this be oriented towards our politicians and representatives. Petition for a bill to make the production of not compostable bottles illegal. This isn’t really unprecedented, anyone have a CFL light bulb in their house? They’ve had some good press lately.
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Audrey replied on Mar 26, 2010I agree—let’s get the attention of folks who have clout (which in our society translates to money…)
Compostable containers could be good, but how much land would be used (especially land cleared in 3rd world tropical countries to grow cane, bamboo, etc) to produce our beloved disposables? Containers would need to be restricted to being made from agricultural waste products only, such as the cellulosic parts of the corn plant (stems, leaves), not the kernels.
Why not go one step further and go after the disposables mentality? Create fat tax incentives for companies and individuals who use re-usables. Petition for a bill that phases out disposable containers somehow. It’s not as if we NEED disposables, we’ve simply become accustomed to using them without even thinking about it.
Glass can be re-used until it breaks, and broken glass can be recycled numerous times. Plastics, on the other hand, can typically be recycled only once, to a lower-grade plastic (or to synthetic fabrics).
Go for it!
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Then they will dissolve when exposed to water into it’s natural components!
KEWL
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Maldonado Madison replied on Mar 15, 2010
My main concern in the USA is the fluoridation of water… It is so dangerous and most of the developed world has stopped this unethical practice. You can read more about it on the Fluoride Action Network website. It will make your hair stand on end.
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I have one Aquafina bottle that I carry around and make a point of showing folks I fill it at a water fountain or bathroom sink. I’ll never pay for water as long as I live within the bounds of the Great Lakes and shame on the rest who find it trendy to pay for water!
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Tommy Charles replied on Sep 25, 2009
Tim Dunn, Chlorine has not been shown to cause cancer. Get your facts straight. It is not listed as a carcinogenic compound and never has been.
However, trihalomethanes or other organic compounds that are created when water is chlorinated are currently under investigation. There is a weak association suspected between them and rectal and bladder cancers. Whether these compounds can be filtered out (or even exist in any significant quantities in average tap water) I can’t tell you. Just thought we should be a bit more specific here.
IMO, bottled water is the biggest scam ever conceived of.
Besides, I know allot of smokers who drink bottled water. This indicates to me that they are buying it because it’s a fad, not because of any expected health benefits.
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Tim Dunn replied on Sep 25, 2009
Please note that I didn’t say that buying bottled water was the only way that you can avoid the carcinogenic hazards associated with chlorinated water. There isn’t any debate about the hazards of chlorinating water among scientists about these hazards. Chlorination is done because it is considered the lesser of two evils – the carcinogenic effects are less of a hazard to public health than diseases such as cholera, typhus, and typhoid – it isn’t regarded as harmless by public health officials. Quibbles about exactly which chlorine compound might be at fault are beside the pont.
See: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/165/2/148
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Am I allowed to put tap water into my Brita jug?
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Danny Clark replied on Jan 25, 2009
Plastic bottles are a growing problem in our landfills and oceans. We felt that something needed to be done……and now.
We felt that plastics made from crops that could be producing food, wasn’t the answer. Many reports indicate that in addition to causing our food process to rise, the equipment and chemicals used to produce food based bio-fuel may be increasing pollution.
We knew that there wasn’t going to be one “fix it all” answer and began to wonder if anything was ever going to be done. The problem was growing every day, more bottles were being manufactured and more bottles were accumulating in places where we didn’t need them.
We were wondering if “Earth Friendly Bottles” would ever be available?
That’s why we decided to do our part and started ENSO Bottles. We are partnering with other companies to offer a PET plastic bottle that will biodegrade, compost or recycle.
Our bottles can be produced in a clear or colored version, however, clear version isn’t quite as clear as current PET plastic bottles but then again that’s one way to identify our earth friendly bottle.
ENSO is trying to achieve sustainability with our plastic bottles. Our goal is to make bottles that won’t have the adverse impact on our environment and are made from non food bio-fuels.
We haven’t started making them from bio-fuel but that’s high on our agenda and hopefully will be something we can offer in the future.
But for now, we offer a plastic bottle that is earth friendly…it’s just one step but if we all take just one step toward improving our planet….we will make a difference.
Now all we need is for a lot of beverage companies to start using earth friendly plastic bottles.
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