messageI think filtered water should be free and come from fountains and be chilled… Oh wait, it does…
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Christopher McGarvey started this discussion on Sep 20, 2007Am I allowed to put tap water into my Brita jug?
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David Heller replied on Nov 13, 2007
I’m a guilty purchaser of bottled water…I’m trying to stop though!
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Rachel Gartley replied on Nov 13, 2007
Approaching the problem in the hopes of eliminating bottled water all together is unrealistic. Let’s focus on environmentally friendly, biodegradable bottles and also support reusable bottles that are dish washer safe to provide a long term solution.
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Philip kirkbride replied on Nov 14, 2007
I agree biodegradable bottles would be good and that this quite possibly could get some publicity and make big companies seriously concider making them but I find it funny that in the end dasani will proby see profit from it.
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Dario Meli replied on Nov 14, 2007
Empty water bottles are the new styrofoam big mac containers. get rid of these things!
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Collin Worth replied on Nov 27, 2007
I use the same water bottle everyday and just refill it out of the water fountain. There is no reason that aquafina, or dasani can’t use biodegradable bottles.
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Eric Lombardi replied on Dec 10, 2007
Unfortunately, “biobottles” are not environmentally friendly in this situation and are a real threat to the existing recycling programs in the world. I am the President of the GrassRoots Recycling Network (www.grrn.org) and we created a campaign over a year ago to STOP the use of bioplastic bottles, even though we support bioplastic “other things.” To see our position we created a website with lots of technical information (http://www.plasticredesignproject.org/PLAHome.htm).
The bottom line is that creating bioplastic bottles takes almost as much oil as a petroplastic bottle, but, the bioplastic bottle will end up in the landfill (for many reasons) where all that embedded energy will be lost, and, the bottle will biodegrade, creating methane, a serious GHG.
Sorry folks, but this is one campaign that shouldn’t go forward at this time. The real campaign should be “clean tap water” so we don’t have to buy bottled water.
Eric Lombardi
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Vicki Hall replied on Jul 18, 2008
I am a manufacturers rep for a brand new company that is making biodegradable water bottles. I would love to help with this cause. You can contact me at vhall@naples.net or 239.398.7966.
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Anonymous replied on Sep 29, 2008i agree with eric. just take your own water with you that you filter yourself. i no longer purchase bottled water. sometimes people visiting will ask for a bottled water and i just explain to them why i don’t purchase it. and then maybe they will ‘get’ it and so on.
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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.
