Bottled Water
- December 2nd, 2011
- Posted in Complaints and Grievances . Sustainability and Eco
- By Zerga
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I never buy bottled water. Except the occasional beer, wine or whisky that comes in recyclable glass, I am barely buying any plastic bottles at all (and I am practically never buying cans of any kind neither). I might have a slight advantage though: I don’t like Cola, Fanta, Sprite very much, but… I probably can NOT live without sparkling water. The bubbles are soo refreshing and soothing for my stomach, its almost a relieve to drink it.
Before I go to the store to get tons of bottles every week though, I got myself one of those Sodastreams a while ago and am now able to create water with gas from tap water myself. It is cheap, healthy (you need to keep the bottles clean for that though), extremely simple and practical, because you have to only get a new CO2 tank once in a while (which are being refilled and reused). Even if you are addicted to sodas, there are sirups that can be added after preparing the water to turn it into cola, tonic water, fanta, sprite and similar drinks. So please explain to me, why anyone with access to clean tap water would still buy water in bottles!
And please read more on the problems with bottled water in the article ‘Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water‘.
didn’t you write about this before? but it is a matter that cannot be mentioned often enough. i agree with you a hundred per cent. buying water from around the world, when it comes directly out of the wall in your house? stupidest thing ever. i drink tap water exclusively. i don’t even need it sparkling. for taste, i often make tea. the water here in frankfurt is not the best for that, as it is quite “hard” (bremen has much softer water, for example. great water. bremen is great, anyway. i miss it), but i don’t mind that. germany has high quality tap water everywhere, which can be used for everything, period. people just have been brainwashed by all those soda commercials, i guess…
Have i written about this topic already? I can’t remember. Hum, maybe not on my blog but on facebook back in the days when it was still cool to write stuff on facebook. Now its not cool. And plastic bottles aren’t cool as well…
Now all of you! Stop buying those god damn bottles, will you?!
i think it was on fb actually, so good thing you brought it up on your fine blog again, because who cares about what’s on fb?
and yeah, i agree, no more bottles whatsoever! except for the good stuff, like you mentioned, whisk´[e]y, wine, beer, brandy, cognac, ouzo!, et cetera, because that shit does unfortunately *not* come out of the wall. at least not in my house…