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Bottled water vs. tap - very compelling

Wednesday Oct 24, 2007

Packaged water seems to abound in the states and given that tap water is generally good here, it makes you think about the potential for over-spending and waste given 40% of bottled US water is filtered tap.

Ira Flatow had a blog posting about a week ago talking about "Bottled water waste" Here are some tidbits (see http://www.sciencefriday.com/blog/index.php?archives/235-Bottled-Water-Waste.html for more):

  • ...Bottled water costs as much as $10 per gallon vs. penny per gallon of tap
  • ...3 liters of water to produce each liter of bottled water
  • ...in the US, less than 20% of these bottles are recycled
To find out the carbon footprint of your packaged water you'll have to go to his blog... SHOCKING!

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Posted at 10:06AM Oct 24, 2007 in Misc
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To get good quality water (e.g. for coffee/tea) here in central Europe I use Brita filters which are recyclable.

Posted by Vladimir Kotal on October 24, 2007 at 11:14 AM PDT #

Speaking of bottled water - try spelling evian backwards ;)

Posted by Mads on October 24, 2007 at 02:26 PM PDT #

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