OT: Some groups says they tested bottled water, lots of it is junk

[Doc]

pRICE cUBE wrote: Some groups says they tested bottled water, lots of it is junk

They did not test the water.

They evaluated the accuracy and completeness of the information on the labels and on the bottlers' web sites.

[Wags]

Better option:

Big Berkey gravity water filter system

[mikebw]

olnacl wrote:
After I finally got the contents out, I could not find any recycling symbol on the plastic, so into the landfill it will have to go.

In my county they will take any and all kinds of plastic packaging in addition to the more common numbered plastics. This makes recycling so much easier since you don't have to identify the material beyond it simply being a plastic.

[pRICE cUBE]

Doc wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]Some groups says they tested bottled water, lots of it is junk

They did not test the water.

They evaluated the accuracy and completeness of the information on the labels and on the bottlers' web sites.

Heeeeey, somebody read it!

[DaviDC.]

Trouble wrote:
[quote=DaviDC.]
Bottled water is one of the biggest cons ever carried out in this country.

Not as bad as the recycling con. (Except for aluminum cans)
I harvest aluminum cans to take in for recycling.
If I was King of America, I'd outlaw glass & plastic bottles. If people are going to throw their used beverage containers out the window, then they ought to be made of something that's profitable to be picked up.

[haikuman]

Wags wrote:
Better option:

Big Berkey gravity water filter system

I like this puppy...~!~

[Rick-o]

mattkime wrote:
I don't see why bottled water gets such a bad rap when any other bottled beverage uses the exact same packaging.

Seems that nearly everything in supermarkets that was once distributed in glass containers is now plastic. Where is the outrage about all of THAT plastic?

[OWC Jamie]

DaviDC. wrote:
[quote=Trouble]
[quote=DaviDC.]
Bottled water is one of the biggest cons ever carried out in this country.

Not as bad as the recycling con. (Except for aluminum cans)
I harvest aluminum cans to take in for recycling.
If I was King of America, I'd outlaw glass & plastic bottles. If people are going to throw their used beverage containers out the window, then they ought to be made of something that's profitable to be picked up.
Weight of aluminum or deposit returns ?


All the stores that are required to operate bottle redemption here are only taking what they've sold.
Good luck trying to return a beer bottle at a grocery store that doesn't sell beer or a can or bottle the liquor store didn't sell.
Plus you don't get cash, you get store credit redemption slips. That can usually only be used for purchases.


We pay $80.00 a year to put just about everything including plastic bottle with no deposits in a blue box on the curb once a week. No limit and peoples still throw crap out their car windows.

I'm not a fan of deposits but I think that's the only way to help keep it out of the environment - make it worth something to pick back up after the slobs.

[Uncle Wig]

Rick-o wrote:
[quote=mattkime]
I don't see why bottled water gets such a bad rap when any other bottled beverage uses the exact same packaging.

Seems that nearly everything in supermarkets that was once distributed in glass containers is now plastic. Where is the outrage about all of THAT plastic?
Matt and Rick, the difference is you can't get soda and fruit juice out of your faucet. Bottled water duplicates a perfectly viable delivery system which uses far less energy and does not add to solid waste.

[Lew Zealand]

I'm a fan of recycling but the great thing about landfills is they are wonderful concentrators of documented natural resources which can be easily mined when the economics of such become favorable.