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💦8-12-16oz water bottles; how could we ever do without you!(justifiable sarcasm)

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It's a hot day outside, with temps reaching 90-95°f(32-35°c), and you are thirsty! So you stop by the nearest convenience store, and you spend $.99 - $1.79 for what you could have gotten for free out of a faucet somewhere, an 8-12-16oz bottle of water! Obviously it's a smart investment! There is a problem with the water, it's cold. Obviously nobody wants to drink cold water! Fortunately, it proves to be a temporary inconvenience, because by the time you've taken 3-5 sips from the bottle, it's already reached water's optimum consumption temperature of 70-80°f! You take 2 more quick sips from the 12oz bottle, and now it's time to pour the remaining 8 ounces onto the ground, and throw the plastic bottle into the trash... As we all know, you didn't really want to drink more than 3-4oz anyway!

Now you get to benefit from another extremely practical use for that now-empty bottle. We all often stress over the knowledge that our trash bags aren't usually completely full when we drop them into our outdoor cans. But if you toss several plastic water bottles into each trash bag right before taking them outside, they will serve to fill those empty gaps, giving you the peace of mind of knowing you are getting efficient use out of those trash bags!

Here's some free advice on how to get the best flavor from your bottled water. After purchasing it, make sure to store them either in the trunk of your car, or in your hot garage, for several days. They will reach temps of 90-125°f. Now, your water will be imparted with that bitter plastic-ey flavor!

'Some' people will claim that dumping hundreds of millions of water bottles into landfills is a bad thing. But that's not really true, especially when you realize they will decompose in just under 450,000 years, so that shouldn't be a worry. Many of them will end up in the ocean, or inland waterways, where they can be VERY useful to wildlife, as flotation devices for when they tire of swimming!

In short, keep buying hundreds of 8-12-16oz water bottles per year, instead of using your free tap water, because odds are, your tap water will only be 100% safe and clean, but it won't be any less healthy! This should concern us deeply...
 
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I generally drink rainwater as I have a rainwater tank. I do purchase bottled water at times.

I pay .35c per bottle here.

Equates to only .25c if you recycle them for cash.

Out of interest, do you recycle water bottles/cans of drink etc for cash there?
 
It's a hot day outside, with temps reaching 90-95°f(32-35°c), and you are thirsty! So you stop by the nearest convenience store, and you spend $.99 - $1.79 for what you could have gotten for free out of a faucet somewhere, an 8-12-16oz bottle of water! Obviously it's a smart investment! There is a problem with the water, it's cold. Obviously nobody wants to drink cold water! Fortunately, it proves to be a temporary inconvenience, because by the time you've taken 3-5 sips from the bottle, it's already reached water's optimum consumption temperature of 70-80°f! You take 2 more quick sips from the 12oz bottle, and now it's time to pour the remaining 8 ounces onto the ground, and throw the plastic bottle into the trash... As we all know, you didn't really want to drink more than 3-4oz anyway!

Now you get to benefit from another extremely practical use for that now-empty bottle. We all often stress over the knowledge that our trash bags aren't usually completely full when we drop them into our outdoor cans. But if you toss several plastic water bottles into each trash bag right before taking them outside, they will serve to fill those empty gaps, giving you the peace of mind of knowing you are getting efficient use out of those trash bags!

Here's some free advice on how to get the best flavor from your bottled water. After purchasing it, make sure to store them either in the trunk of your car, or in your hot garage, for several days. They will reach temps of 90-125°f. Now, your water will be imparted with that bitter plastic-ey flavor!

'Some' people will claim that dumping hundreds of millions of water bottles into landfills is a bad thing. But that's not really true, especially when you realize they will decompose in just under 450,000 years, so that shouldn't be a worry. Many of them will end up in the ocean, or inland waterways, where they can be VERY useful to wildlife, as flotation devices for when they tire of swimming!

In short, keep buying hundreds of 8-12-16oz water bottles per year, instead of using your free tap water, because odds are, your tap water will only be 100% safe and clean, but it won't be any less healthy! This should concern us deeply...

Free tap water? Sheet!!! In my town you pay a base charge of 80$ a month, if you don't turn a faucet all month long.

My Dad always confuse waiters when ordering "spicket punch" (good old tap water)
Not big on bottled water unless a hurricane comes along.

Forget those evil straws, plastic bags and water bottles are the real culprits.
 
Recycle or get creative;




In a pinch, you can make a lovely small shaped charge with a water bottle....you know, for those life moments that require you to breach stubborn obstacles.
 
Free tap water? Sheet!!! In my town you pay a base charge of 80$ a month, if you don't turn a faucet all month long.

My Dad always confuse waiters when ordering "spicket punch" (good old tap water)
Not big on bottled water unless a hurricane comes along.

Forget those evil straws, plastic bags and water bottles are the real culprits.[/QUOTE

Trouble is in the US,many of your Cities and Rural Towns,Sell their PURE water in Plastic Bottles to wait for it.....CHINA,it is a massive industry...check it out,you may well be supporting that Export Industry...CHINA get the very BEST QUALITY WATER(and pay for it) but do you Bob, in many towns you do not...So SLINGSHOT your Water Board and check em out...stevehttp://www.debatepolitics.com/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif
 
It's a hot day outside, with temps reaching 90-95°f(32-35°c), and you are thirsty! So you stop by the nearest convenience store, and you spend $.99 - $1.79 for what you could have gotten for free out of a faucet somewhere, an 8-12-16oz bottle of water! Obviously it's a smart investment! There is a problem with the water, it's cold. Obviously nobody wants to drink cold water! Fortunately, it proves to be a temporary inconvenience, because by the time you've taken 3-5 sips from the bottle, it's already reached water's optimum consumption temperature of 70-80°f! You take 2 more quick sips from the 12oz bottle, and now it's time to pour the remaining 8 ounces onto the ground, and throw the plastic bottle into the trash... As we all know, you didn't really want to drink more than 3-4oz anyway!

Now you get to benefit from another extremely practical use for that now-empty bottle. We all often stress over the knowledge that our trash bags aren't usually completely full when we drop them into our outdoor cans. But if you toss several plastic water bottles into each trash bag right before taking them outside, they will serve to fill those empty gaps, giving you the peace of mind of knowing you are getting efficient use out of those trash bags!

Here's some free advice on how to get the best flavor from your bottled water. After purchasing it, make sure to store them either in the trunk of your car, or in your hot garage, for several days. They will reach temps of 90-125°f. Now, your water will be imparted with that bitter plastic-ey flavor!

'Some' people will claim that dumping hundreds of millions of water bottles into landfills is a bad thing. But that's not really true, especially when you realize they will decompose in just under 450,000 years, so that shouldn't be a worry. Many of them will end up in the ocean, or inland waterways, where they can be VERY useful to wildlife, as flotation devices for when they tire of swimming!

In short, keep buying hundreds of 8-12-16oz water bottles per year, instead of using your free tap water, because odds are, your tap water will only be 100% safe and clean, but it won't be any less healthy! This should concern us deeply...

I believe you are right about plastic bottles, wrong about water.

Water is not free. Someone is always paying for it. You may not see a cost from a water fountain, but the town is paying money to purify the water. In the US we are extremely lucky. Drinking water is available from coast to coast. Many countries cannot say this.

My personal issue with the water bottling companies is the extreme effect they have on the water resources in the areas they pump their water. Terrible. They outright kill the local wildlife and vegetation through the destruction of streams and waterways.
 
I generally drink rainwater as I have a rainwater tank. I do purchase bottled water at times.

I pay .35c per bottle here.

Equates to only .25c if you recycle them for cash.

Out of interest, do you recycle water bottles/cans of drink etc for cash there?

I don't think you can recycle them for cash here, but i don't generally buy or use enough plastic water bottles, with few exceptions. The idea for this thread came to me last night, while drinking a 12oz bottle of spring water given to me by a client. They gave me 2 of them, which had been stored in their garage, then put in the freezer for an hour to cool them. It tasted like plastic.

I usually bring a large container of sweet tea with me, but some times I run out, or it gets warm.

I have another client who buys water in 12-16oz bottles, and has them stored in his refrigerator crisper drawer. I used to drink one of them occasionally, but then I decided to try the filtered water and ice cubes from the refrigerator's built in dispensor. I found that it's just as good as the bottles water, so I stopped drinking them there. It makes zero sense to pay for bottles water, when you have a refrigerator that dispenses ice and perfectly clean, filtered water!
 
I believe you are right about plastic bottles, wrong about water.

Water is not free. Someone is always paying for it. You may not see a cost from a water fountain, but the town is paying money to purify the water. In the US we are extremely lucky. Drinking water is available from coast to coast. Many countries cannot say this.

My personal issue with the water bottling companies is the extreme effect they have on the water resources in the areas they pump their water. Terrible. They outright kill the local wildlife and vegetation through the destruction of streams and waterways.

I wasn't aware of destruction of the local ecosystems nearby the sources of bottled water. I guess I just assumed they did it in a semi-responsible way. That makes it even worse!

My primary complaint with bottled water was the waste of plastic, which ends up in landfills or worse. Even if they are recycled, it still requires money and resources to do it. It would be better to just not produce so much plastic to begin with. Besides, prior to about 27 years ago, 12-16oz bottles of water were almost non existent, because most people drank their perfectly good tap water, and there were no problems with it. Nowadays, so many people have been convinced that they actually need bottled water, because they erroneously think their tap water is bad. Just filter it if that's the concern!
 
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Recycle or get creative;




In a pinch, you can make a lovely small shaped charge with a water bottle....you know, for those life moments that require you to breach stubborn obstacles.


That explains how the US govt 9/11 conspirators used homemade water bottle shaped charges to bring down the twin towers. It made it easier to get by security in the towers on the day they placed them on the structural beams, which they did on 9/7/01!
 
Out of curiosity...would the people in this thread drink the water in Flint Michigan today? The Federal, State and local government say it is fit for consumption.
 
Out of curiosity...would the people in this thread drink the water in Flint Michigan today? The Federal, State and local government say it is fit for consumption.

If I lived there, I'd have my tap water tested by a reliable, outside source(ie. not the govt), and if it proved not to contain heavy metals etc, I'd buy a faucet filter, then I'd drink it. But I would periodically have it retested for sure!
 
Looking forward to the day that we phase out consumer plastics.
 
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