Environmental Footprint
According to a study (see below) conducted by the Swiss Gas and Water Association, tap water, even if it’s refrigerated, has less than one one-hundredth the global warming impact of bottled water. It takes oil to make the plastic bottles, and it takes oil to transport water from source to bottling plant to distribution centers to stores. It takes more oil to run the trucks that collect the empties. (Yes, most water bottles are fully recyclable, but fewer than fifteen percent of the 50 billion water bottles Americans use each year are returned to recycling systems: the rest are burned, buried, or littered.) Tap water is delivered through public mains, often by gravity, and generates almost zero waste.
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bottled water is better, because if you live in a old home the pipes are all rusty, and a filter is only cleaning up water that went thru rusted pipes.
I agree 100% Elizabeth, and wanted to give you some more support on this issue!
Because of the Environmental Footprint and the poor recycling habits of most people bottled water is a crime. Bottled water takes to many resources to justify the convenience. I have partnered with a company that is promoting Stainless Steel Bottles and a Garbage free lunch system for people to reduce their impact on landfills. We also have a fundraising/promotion side to have bottles branded with company or school logo to advertise that people do care for the environment and don’t want to make the big beverage companies more money by pilfering our resources. The company is called www.envirobottles.ca and we would like to speak with you about your opinion and your expertise.
Please look us up.
Thanks
Corey
EnviroBottles
While I agree that bottled water is not worth it for me personally, it is for others, and they have that choice. It's not about 'justifying the convenience' or 'pilfering resources', it's about the choices people are willing to make and the prices they're willing to pay for those choices. You would be much more convincing if you would recognize this, and try to argue that bottled water is a bad choice rather than calling it a crime.
I suppose i would be more convincing. I think it is a crime that in this day and age people are so focused on pro choice and how it benifits people in small numbers. It is peoples right to choose bottled water, it is also the same people that just recycle 20% of what water they do buy. I think if this topic was i throw 80% my garbage out the window and 20% into garbage desposals your opion might change. The crime is the choice to not recycle what you choose to buy if posible.
Our society is based on convienence and personal selfishness.
Just because people have the money and choose to purchase something doesn't make it right in the long term.
Even if you decided to throw 80% of your garbage out the window, it would still be your choice to do so. However, it would be my choice to avoid any sort of contact with you, and it would be my choice to convince others to do the same until you cleaned up your act.
I said nothing about whether it's right for people to choose bottled water over tap water. However, just because something may not be right doesn't make it a crime.
it is only not a crime untill it becomes a law.