Comments on: The Cost of Bottled Water http://www.billrowell.com/2008/01/03/the-cost-of-bottled-water/ Welcome To My World Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Eric Yaverbaum http://www.billrowell.com/2008/01/03/the-cost-of-bottled-water/comment-page-1/#comment-2274 Eric Yaverbaum Sat, 05 Jan 2008 19:43:45 +0000 http://www.billrowell.com/2008/01/03/the-cost-of-bottled-water/#comment-2274 We have all those facts and figures on our website which Scott referenced in his blog (www.tappening.com). The facts (disputed by no one including Coke and Pepsi) are that if you drink the recommended and advised daily allowance of water and buy bottled water, you will spend $1400 a year. If you get it from your tap it will cost you 49 cents a year. The real and bigger problem is all the fossil fuels that have to be burned to make the plastic, fill the bottles, extract, filter, and purify the water, maintain the factories and warehouses, ship the millions of bottles, keep them cool at retail, and then process the waste — all for nothing, because the stuff in the bottle is no better than the stuff that comes right out of the tap! And sadly (although to their credit, Coca Cola is working hard to change this), only 20% of what we drink is recycled. Just get yourself a filter and a good re-useable water bottle!!! PLEASE! We have all those facts and figures on our website which Scott referenced in his blog (www.tappening.com). The facts (disputed by no one including Coke and Pepsi) are that if you drink the recommended and advised daily allowance of water and buy bottled water, you will spend $1400 a year. If you get it from your tap it will cost you 49 cents a year.

The real and bigger problem is all the fossil fuels that have to be burned to make the plastic, fill the bottles, extract, filter, and purify the water, maintain the factories and warehouses, ship the millions of bottles, keep them cool at retail, and then process the waste — all for nothing, because the stuff in the bottle is no better than the stuff that comes right out of the tap!

And sadly (although to their credit, Coca Cola is working hard to change this), only 20% of what we drink is recycled.

Just get yourself a filter and a good re-useable water bottle!!! PLEASE!

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