At 7/25/09 08:50 PM, Peacekid wrote:
I have six empty bottles of water on my desk right now. With water I can drink a gallon of it without risking myself
Switching to it is cheaper
Don't forget the fact that you're spending a ton of money buying bottles of water when you could just buy a pitcher that you fill with tap water and put in your fridge. It's fridge-cold water without the expense and plastic waste.
Think about all the ridiculous amounts of energy that go into making a plastic bottle and paper label, gathering water, filtering it and putting into the bottle, then shipping it to you. It's a huge amount of waste, even if you are recycling the bottles. Think of the piles of bottle waste you're producing- 100% would disappear if you just filtered it yourself.
There's people who have little or no access to clean water, and here we are bottling it and shipping it across continent and sea while we can just turn on our tap and get it dirt cheap.