Bottled Water

he still stands

stop drinking it!!! You have FREE water coming out of your tap (or at least cheap water). It has to be tested quarterly or monthly. The US has the best and safest supply of drinking water ANYWHERE. If you drink Aquafina or Dasani (Pepsi and Coke products) you are drinking FUCKING TAP WATER ANYWAY!!!!!! Do you realize how much oil it takes to 1) make the plastic bottle (only 25% are eventually recycled) and 2) transport the water to the store??? It is WASTE!!!

I guess its okay if you're traveling or at a concert or something, but if you're in your own home.... WTF??? I just don't get it. If you're for a healthy planet, then don't be a hypocrite.

Sorry for the rant.

blackredyellow

Totally agree... and if you don't trust your tap water, or like us, our well water has a bad sulfer taste, all you need to get is get one of those filter pitchers or a filter that goes right on your faucet. The filters last a few months are cheap to replace.

My dad has worked for the county water company for like 30 years and now runs the filter plant at the reservoir where our drinking water came from growing up, so I was raised with a bias against bottle water.

We occasionally get bottled water if we are out or whatever, but we reuse the bottles. Right now we have about 6-7 bottles with an inch or two of ice in the bottom on the inside of our freezer door. If we go somewhere and want to take water, we just grab a couple of bottles, fill them up the rest of the way and the ice keeps them cold for a while.

he still stands

blackredyellow wrote:

Totally agree... and if you don't trust your tap water, or like us, our well water has a bad sulfer taste, all you need to get is get one of those filter pitchers or a filter that goes right on your faucet. The filters last a few months are cheap to replace.

My dad has worked for the county water company for like 30 years and now runs the filter plant at the reservoir where our drinking water came from growing up, so I was raised with a bias against bottle water.

We occasionally get bottled water if we are out or whatever, but we reuse the bottles. Right now we have about 6-7 bottles with an inch or two of ice in the bottom on the inside of our freezer door. If we go somewhere and want to take water, we just grab a couple of bottles, fill them up the rest of the way and the ice keeps them cold for a while.

hooray!!! thanks for the intelligent and non-confrontational response... there is hope yet for this forum!!!

tybird

blackredyellow wrote:

Totally agree... and if you don't trust your tap water, or like us, our well water has a bad sulfer taste, all you need to get is get one of those filter pitchers or a filter that goes right on your faucet. The filters last a few months are cheap to replace.

My dad has worked for the county water company for like 30 years and now runs the filter plant at the reservoir where our drinking water came from growing up, so I was raised with a bias against bottle water.

We occasionally get bottled water if we are out or whatever, but we reuse the bottles. Right now we have about 6-7 bottles with an inch or two of ice in the bottom on the inside of our freezer door. If we go somewhere and want to take water, we just grab a couple of bottles, fill them up the rest of the way and the ice keeps them cold for a while.

Those filter pitchers rock!!!!! We keep one in the fridge, and I use that water to mix up my instant Gatorade.

CHANGEinWAVES

I feel like this thread was meant for me....I feel so bad reading it because I whole heartedly agree. We have a filter in our fridge but recently it has been producing gross flaky bits in it...so i've been drinking tap water but it's so gross. My husband is going to take a look at the fridge on wednesday and try and fix it because all we drink is water, but today I broke down and bought a six pack of Fiji bottled water....my guilt at the time didn't out weigh my thirst. But now I feel really bad. (I will reuse the bottles for a bit until they too get gross..then off to the recycling bin for them)

I do have to say in our defense that my husband goes above and beyond with recycling. He's a Pharmacist and all those pills come in tiny plastic bottles...they throw away hundreds of them a day... my hubby brings them all home and recycles them. He looks like a druggy crack head with 2 large trash bags full of pill bottles in his car every day....but he's helping the earth.

Abookamongstthemany

You can go to places like the one I shop at http://www.garnersnatural.com and buy water containers and fill them up there with their filtered water dispenser. I'm pretty sure Whole Foods has this, too. All you do is put it in your fridge and you're set...they even sell water containers with spouts. When you run out just bring the container back for a refill. It only costs us $1.50 to refill our 3 gallon container and it tastes so good! I can't believe how much they charge for those 20 oz bottles in vending machines! Our tap water smells so bad I don't even trust it with the filter pitcher we have.

tybird

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I feel like this thread was meant for me....I feel so bad reading it because I whole heartedly agree. We have a filter in our fridge but recently it has been producing gross flaky bits in it...so i've been drinking tap water but it's so gross. My husband is going to take a look at the fridge on wednesday and try and fix it because all we drink is water, but today I broke down and bought a six pack of Fiji bottled water....my guilt at the time didn't out weigh my thirst. But now I feel really bad. (I will reuse the bottles for a bit until they too get gross..then off to the recycling bin for them)

I do have to say in our defense that my husband goes above and beyond with recycling. He's a Pharmacist and all those pills come in tiny plastic bottles...they throw away hundreds of them a day... my hubby brings them all home and recycles them. He looks like a druggy crack head with 2 large trash bags full of pill bottles in his car every day....but he's helping the earth.

Our city won't pick up the type of plastic of which the majority of those pill bottle are manufactured. :(

Abookamongstthemany

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I do have to say in our defense that my husband goes above and beyond with recycling. He's a Pharmacist and all those pills come in tiny plastic bottles...they throw away hundreds of them a day... my hubby brings them all home and recycles them. He looks like a druggy crack head with 2 large trash bags full of pill bottles in his car every day....but he's helping the earth.

That's awesome!

Jooooosh

he still stands wrote:

stop drinking it!!! You have FREE water coming out of your tap (or at least cheap water). It has to be tested quarterly or monthly. The US has the best and safest supply of drinking water ANYWHERE. If you drink Aquafina or Dasani (Pepsi and Coke products) you are drinking FUCKING TAP WATER ANYWAY!!!!!! Do you realize how much oil it takes to 1) make the plastic bottle (only 25% are eventually recycled) and 2) transport the water to the store??? It is WASTE!!!

I guess its okay if you're traveling or at a concert or something, but if you're in your own home.... WTF??? I just don't get it. If you're for a healthy planet, then don't be a hypocrite.

Sorry for the rant.

Not everyone lives in the city, if you have your own pump the water is only tested when the well is first drilled, so depending on where you live, some places the tap water is hardly even consumable there's so much iron and sulfur in it.
Although there are alternatives, my mom hates our tap water (though I think it tastes fine) so she goes to the store and fills a couple gallon jugs there. She re-uses the same two jugs, and it only costs about $1 to fill.
It tastes the same as bottled water, costs less, and is more environmentally friendly -- if you want to have it on the go, buy a regular bottled water and reuse the bottle.

Juberoo

Plus if you are drinking out of plastic bottles/jugs you are ingesting toxins from the pastic that leeches into the water. Go Glass!

CHANGEinWAVES

tybird wrote:

Our city won't pick up the type of plastic of which the majority of those pill bottle are manufactured. :(

most of the bottles are #2 recycle...but our township does a good job on recycling, pick up just about anything.
this is a great site to find out were u can take certain things.
http://earth911.org/

tybird

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

most of the bottles are #2 recycle...but our township does a good job on recycling, pick up just about anything.
this is a great site to find out were u can take certain things.
http://earth911.org/

Walgreens puts the drugs into those little brown (clear) bottles.....they're #5. I do recycle any pill bottles that are #2 plastic.

Rushlimbo

Tap water is full of flouride which is not good for your body.

http://www.wholywater.com/fluoride.html

http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/shamesfluoride.htm

http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/2007/06/29/adding-fluoride-to-water-supplies-bad-for-our-teeth/

http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/water-filtration-systems.htm

norm

Rushlimbo wrote:

Tap water is full of flouride which is not good for your body.

..which i've recently learned my be the cause of many of my health problems.....at the same time, bottled water is a waste....filters are the way to go........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNGWn-aWn5g

he still stands

Rushlimbo wrote:

Tap water is full of flouride which is not good for your body.

http://www.wholywater.com/fluoride.html

http://www.thyroid-info.com/articles/shamesfluoride.htm

http://www.drbriffa.com/blog/2007/06/29/adding-fluoride-to-water-supplies-bad-for-our-teeth/

http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/water-filtration-systems.htm

if you have public water, your water is tested frequently and the test results are disclosed. My ppb for flouride was about 10% of the max level allowed. If your flouride was considered to be at a toxic level, it would have to be disclosed to you via mail.

And isn't SOME flouride good for you?

lets not find ways to be lazy and continue to destroy the planet. Its little things like this that make a difference!

chadwick

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

I feel like this thread was meant for me....I feel so bad reading it because I whole heartedly agree. We have a filter in our fridge but recently it has been producing gross flaky bits in it...so i've been drinking tap water but it's so gross. My husband is going to take a look at the fridge on wednesday and try and fix it because all we drink is water, but today I broke down and bought a six pack of Fiji bottled water....my guilt at the time didn't out weigh my thirst. But now I feel really bad. (I will reuse the bottles for a bit until they too get gross..then off to the recycling bin for them)

I do have to say in our defense that my husband goes above and beyond with recycling. He's a Pharmacist and all those pills come in tiny plastic bottles...they throw away hundreds of them a day... my hubby brings them all home and recycles them. He looks like a druggy crack head with 2 large trash bags full of pill bottles in his car every day....but he's helping the earth.

Where can I recycle my pill bottles?
I asked my pharmacist one time, why dont ya'll
recycle these med bottles.
They didn't have an answer but just that it hasn't never
happened anywhere.
So what is your hubby doin and what can I do to recycle these pill bottles?

CHANGEinWAVES

chadwick wrote:

Where can I recycle my pill bottles?
I asked my pharmacist one time, why dont ya'll
recycle these med bottles.
They didn't have an answer but just that it hasn't never
happened anywhere.
So what is your hubby doin and what can I do to recycle these pill bottles?

well he recycles the bottles the pills come in from the manufacturer not the amber bottles the customer gets. there are certain sites that help u find out where in ur area u can recycle certain types of plastics, we're just lucky our township does all kinds at curbside pick up.
http://earth911.org/ I posted it earlier in the thread but this helps u locate where to recycle different things. I hope this helps.

CHANGEinWAVES

tybird wrote:

Walgreens puts the drugs into those little brown (clear) bottles.....they're #5. I do recycle any pill bottles that are #2 plastic.

I'm not talking about the ones handed out to the customer, I mean the ones from the drug manufacturer, they are usually white.

chadwick

CHANGEinWAVES wrote:

well he recycles the bottles the pills come in from the manufacturer not the amber bottles the customer gets. there are certain sites that help u find out where in ur area u can recycle certain types of plastics, we're just lucky our township does all kinds at curbside pick up.
http://earth911.org/ I posted it earlier in the thread but this helps u locate where to recycle different things. I hope this helps.

Yea ppl here in WA recycle about everything I'm thinking.
But my pharmacist hasn't a clue about recycling those amber/brownish
bottles us customers get.
I'll click up the site you posted, thanks.

CHANGEinWAVES

chadwick wrote:

Yea ppl here in WA recycle about everything I'm thinking.
But my pharmacist hasn't a clue about recycling those amber/brownish
bottles us customers get.
I'll click up the site you posted, thanks.

edit: my fault hubby says state law prohibits reusing same bottle....damn Sorry about miss leading u.

chadwick

tybird wrote:

Walgreens puts the drugs into those little brown (clear) bottles.....they're #5. I do recycle any pill bottles that are #2 plastic.

Yea I just learned something today then.
My pill bottles are #5 too.
I will have to peel off the labels and throw these fuckers
into the recycling bins.

I honestly never even noticed the recycling symbol on the bottoms
of these pill bottles till just now.
That is so bad-ass now.