Put Aquafina in Biodegradable Bottles - or Else!

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  Audrey replied on Nov 17, 2008

  Why purchase bottled water ever? Or bottled pop? Are we really so gullible that we think disposable items make our lives better? They reduce the time people used to spend making and cleaning things, but haven’t made our lives any less busy, If anything, the illusion that we would have more free time has only created a culture where we cram our lives even more full!

  The busyness crams people and fun out, but that doesn’t have to be….

  If you want to have a party, for example, you can use all disposables to allow more time to party. When we were kids, we had plenty of ‘party’ fun, doing dishes together in the kitchen w/ all of our guests. Some of my fondest memories as a child and adult were made in the kitchens of home, friends, church, etc, having ‘suds wars’, dish towel snapping contests, etc.

  Reject the sales pitch that material ‘ease’ will make you happy, and enjoy everyday relationships that are so much more satisfying.

  

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  Rachel Gartley replied on Nov 13, 2007

  Approaching the problem in the hopes of eliminating bottled water all together is unrealistic. Let’s focus on environmentally friendly, biodegradable bottles and also support reusable bottles that are dish washer safe to provide a long term solution.

  

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  Philip kirkbride replied on Nov 14, 2007

  I agree biodegradable bottles would be good and that this quite possibly could get some publicity and make big companies seriously concider making them but I find it funny that in the end dasani will proby see profit from it.

  

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  Dario Meli replied on Nov 14, 2007

  Empty water bottles are the new styrofoam big mac containers. get rid of these things!

  

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  Eric Lombardi replied on Dec 10, 2007

  Unfortunately, “biobottles” are not environmentally friendly in this situation and are a real threat to the existing recycling programs in the world. I am the President of the GrassRoots Recycling Network (www.grrn.org) and we created a campaign over a year ago to STOP the use of bioplastic bottles, even though we support bioplastic “other things.” To see our position we created a website with lots of technical information (http://www.plasticredesignproject.org/PLAHome.htm).
  The bottom line is that creating bioplastic bottles takes almost as much oil as a petroplastic bottle, but, the bioplastic bottle will end up in the landfill (for many reasons) where all that embedded energy will be lost, and, the bottle will biodegrade, creating methane, a serious GHG.
  Sorry folks, but this is one campaign that shouldn’t go forward at this time. The real campaign should be “clean tap water” so we don’t have to buy bottled water.
  Eric Lombardi

  

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  Anonymous replied on Sep 29, 2008

  i agree with eric. just take your own water with you that you filter yourself. i no longer purchase bottled water. sometimes people visiting will ask for a bottled water and i just explain to them why i don’t purchase it. and then maybe they will ‘get’ it and so on.

  

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  Subbu Allamaraju replied on Nov 13, 2007

  Totally agree. Making these bottles bio-degradable is not necessarily the best solution for the problem.

  

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