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Category: Bottled Water
You’ve Got Your Reusable Bottle. Now What?
Filling up your bottle from the kitchen sink is easy. But how about when you’re out in the world and need a drink? With water fountains disappearing and restaurants reluctant to fill bottles without a purchase, it’s sometimes frustrating to find drinking water for free.
Enter a couple of web sites that can help.
TapIt [...]
Jackson Browne: Defiant About Bottled Water
Jackson Browne doesn’t appreciate the bottled water industry pumping millions of dollars into advertising to convince us that bottled water is better than tap water. He also happened to be sitting right behind me during the screening of Tapped Friday night at UCLA, one of the events organized by the new Plastic Pollution Coalition [...]
Read the full post.Tapped: Even More Arguments Against Bottled Water
I just finished watching the new documentary, Tapped, a polemic against the bottled water industry. As regular Fake Plastic Fish readers know, I’ve written extensively against bottled water myself, providing a multitude of reasons to avoid the stuff: Bottled water is not as strongly regulated as tap water; it requires more energy to bottle [...]
Read the full post.Outside Lands Rocks with Less Plastic
Don’t get me wrong. There was still a ton of plastic waste to be recycled from the Outside Lands Music Festival that took place this weekend in Golden Gate Park.
But less than last year. Because instead of providing only bottled water, the festival organizers listened to the feedback from last year’s [...]
Green Moms speak out on Bottled Water
As a member of the #Blogher09 Green Team, I had the privilege of participating in a conference call with one of the Blogher Conference’s largest sponsors: PepsiCo. Why did the Green Team want to speak with Pepsi? Because in addition to peddling sodas and other flavored drinks, Pepsi has gotten into the bottled [...]
Read the full post.Bottled Water Problem: It’s Not Just The Bottle!
Bottled water companies are under attack. They know their plastic bottles are a problem, and they are working around the clock to fix it. Either by changing the bottles themselves or changing their marketing or both. PepsiCo, for example, just launched it’s “Eco-Fina” bottle to contain Aquafina bottled water. According to Pepsi’s [...]
Read the full post.Coming to Bay to Breakers tomorrow? Bring your own (H2O) Bottle!
For Immediate Release
Costumed Crusaders Ask Bay to Breakers Runners to BYOB – Bring Your Own Bottle for Water, That Is.
Anti-plastic environmentalists to promote reducing and recycling plastic during B2B 2009
Contact:
Beth Terry, FakePlasticFish.Com, beth[at]fakeplasticfish[dot]com
Eli Saddler, OceanHealth.Org, eli[at]oceanhealth[dot]org
San Francisco, CA – May 17, 2009 – Bay to Breakers hosts the “world’s largest footrace” annually with as many [...]
Antimony: Another reason to avoid bottled water… and polar fleece?
Bottled water sucks. Aside from the moral issue of privatizing what should be a public trust, the plastic containers are made from oil, a non-renewable resource, and last virtually forever in the environment. We know this. We know about the waste from plastic water bottles and the fuel that it takes to [...]
Read the full post.Sitting with a plastic water bottle
Yesterday, Allie wrote about the problem of keeping hydrated while traveling. Not realizing she could carry her Kleen Kanteen through security, she ended up purchasing bottled water. And apparently, she is far from alone. A couple of days ago, USA Today published an article about the environmental issues around bottled water production [...]
Read the full post.I can has floor?
So, with Beth away, I have the floor. Actually, the cats have the floor. They have pretty much the whole apartment. But I should vacuum the floor to protect them from nasty chemicals.
OK, so I’m digressing already. Unlike my previous filling-in-for-Beth posts, this one won’t have a big, unifying theme, like polar bears or general [...]
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