Community Chat

[~moxie~]

water bottle companies are making their caps smaller and harder to open. If you squeeze the bottle close to the cap a few times the cap will come off easily and you won't have to struggle to get it off.

[ahoymate]

FYI......................the ocean is full of plastic water bottles! The great Pacific garbage patch. Don't buy water in plastic bottles!!!!

[Yuban3]

I recycle my plastic bottles. But you're right, the ocean has become a dump.

[DoneTryin]

On 3/31/2014 Yuban3 said:

I recycle my plastic bottles. But you're right, the ocean has become a dump.

Which has caused problems with the search for the lost Malaysian plane. Some of the debris found turned out to be garbage

[Lion]

On 3/31/2014 Skylands said:

FYI......................the ocean is full of plastic water bottles! The great Pacific garbage patch. Don't buy water in plastic bottles!!!!

Exactly! We stopped years ago and won't ever buy them again.

Many of the bottled waters aren't any better, and sometimes worse, than your own home water supply. Waste of money.

Use a home water filtering system if you'd feel better about it. There are many out there, from simple/cheap to bigger & more expensive.

[ahoymate]

On 3/31/2014 Yuban3 said:

I recycle my plastic bottles. But you're right, the ocean has become a dump.

That's a good start! However, unfortunately for every 6 water bottles used, only 1 makes it to the recycle center and end up in ocean, land fill etc. It takes many hundreds of years for plastic to disintegrate.

Also, making plastic bottles uses up a lot of fossil fuel & pollutes the environment.

[Lorainne]

On 3/31/2014 Skylands said:

FYI......................the ocean is full of plastic water bottles! The great Pacific garbage patch. Don't buy water in plastic bottles!!!!

And if you do have plastic bottles, refill them and keep reusing them.

[~moxie~]

I will not drink the local water. It has too many minerals in it and I love my keurig and will only use bottle water in it. I recycle my bottles, none get thrown in the trash.

[sidsmom]

WHEN will this "bottled water" bit be O.V.E.R.? Did I hear that somewhere in California, bottled water being sold is getting banned? Hallelujah! Dallas just passed the beginning stages of no-store-plastic-bags bit...baby steps, but it can be done.

moxie: I totally understand where some areas of the country/world needs bottled water, but if it's not a health issue, there must be another way to attain the non-tap water desired. Have you looked in to getting "bulk" container water refills @ your grocery store? I have two 2-gallon containers I refill @ Whole Foods & Kroger (a generic supermarket)...it reduces the amount of plastic immensely.

[CardinalGirl]

Well.....did you know that all owls are not wise?