Plastic water bottles are so convenient, are they not? Throw one in your bag when you need it, not having to worry about filling up your reusable one, even if it is better for the environment. Plastic bottles fill up landfills at an alarming rate, that' s for sure. While I'm not much for bottled water because all those little bottles add up to a lot more per gallon than gas right now, I did have a few bottles on hand.
After reading this article from Environmental Working Group, I'm going to rethink EVER buying them again.
To summarize, a series of tests were done on several bottled water companies and the tests revealed LOADS of chemicals in bottled water, chemicals that lead to cancer, heavy metals, arsenic, caffeine, Tylenol and many others. These chemicals are basically being accused of bottling tap water and making quite a profit on it. The article is short and even just skimming it will give you enough information to make you not even want to water your plants with it.
But as always, the choice is yours! Let me know if you decide to switch!
And if you find some really cool water bottles.
1 comment:
I like the Klean Kanteen water bottles. I finally got around to buying one last month and it's fantastic. They can be a bit pricey, but I figure if you're a regular bottled water drinker then it's actually not a bad deal.
You can find them at a lot of the natural grocers or order them off of Amazon.com
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