Sentences with phrase «buy plastic water bottles»

If you must buy plastic water bottles, purchase the largest bottle possible to save on packaging.

If you must buy plastic water bottles then don't keep them for too long; make sure you drink them promptly so that the BPA has less time to leach.

After becoming a mother for the second time in six months (adopting a baby in January and giving birth in July), I took on a mission to stop buying plastic water bottles and cut down on plastic use.

Sadly manta poo studies (it's a thing) have discovered a diet largely consisting of plastic — something to think about when buying a plastic water bottle or mindlessly accepting a plastic straw or bag.

By not buying plastic water bottles, you save resources and reduce the amount of trash produced.

Not exact matches

Having jugs of water available for self - service and so no need to buy plastic bottles or pay for water at all

ok, I'm going to ditch: my paper in plastic bags (oh, double whammy on the environment) for reusables, disposable diapers for gdiapers and cloth diapers for my baby boy (I just bought both), pull - ups for cloth training pants for my toddler for bedtime, plastic water bottles, and swiffer cloths.

I already cloth diaper, so I think I will start using family cloth for me (for # 1) and stop buying those evil plastic bottles of water and start using my siggs again.

11) Economically and environmentally speaking, I don't have to buy bottles and formula during the infant years; I don't buy sugary juiceboxes or plastic water bottles to bring to the park and add more trash to the landfills; I don't have to let my little one drink from germ - ridden water fountains; and I always, day or night, anytime, anywhere, have a healthy, environmentally friendly source of hydration and nutrition for my toddler.

Instead of buying plastic bottles of water, anyone with a thirst will be encouraged to take a reusable container to a free water fountain in the high street.

For instance, avoiding canned foods and disposable water bottles and buying BPA - free plastics, can reduce exposure to BPA.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Try not to buy drinking water in plastic bottles as it may be full of xenoestrogens, particularly if you live in a hot climate.

You can add it to your reusable water bottle rather than having to buy a new plastic bottle every time you want to use it.

So, here's the thing about buying water: the plastic bottles are full of estrogen hormones that due to packaging and heat, are leeched into your water.

At least then I could stop buying so many plastic water bottles.

It took a while to get people to realize they were to buy the bottle, add water, then later buy a refill pack and reuse the plastic bottle.

We produce our own distilled water on - site for use in steam sterilization and dental procedures; rather than buying plastic bottles of water that has been transported from a distant factory.

So, rather than continue to buy new plastic bottles (which often end up in the dump), consumers purchase refill tablets and simply add water in the original bottle.

But it does bring to mind a long list of prohibitions — don't buy take away food in plastic containers; don't buy water in plastic bottles (carry your own re-usable bottle) and don't pick the fynbos.

«On a 3 - month trip through India and South East Asia last year, I can count on one hand the number of times I had to buy a plastic bottle of water.

Scientific evidence is not nearly as effective as your neighbors not speaking to you because you water your grass in a drought or your friends making you feel ashamed for buying water in plastic bottles.

Read also: Final Report on Bisphenol A: It May Harm Kids More on BPA in TreeHugger: FDA Says BPA Is Safe For Babies Bisphenol A: How Wal - Mart Became the New FDA Quotes of the Day: Opinions on the FDA Declaring BPA Safe Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles Nalgene Dumps Bisphenol A Like Hot Potato: Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce Bisphenol A Could Be In Your Teeth Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles Nalgene Dumps Bisphenol A Like Hot Potato: Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce Bisphenol A Could Be In Your Teeth Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPbottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles BPA Free?

Drive less, Use reusable «clean canteens» instead of buying water in plastic bottles.

Every second of every day, a thousand Americans buy and drink a plastic bottle of commercially produced water, adding up to 85 million bottles a day.

Fortunately, more people are becoming aware about how ridiculous it is to buy plastic bottled water.

Read more about BPA: Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Chemical Found in Plastic Linked to Reproductive Disorders

credit to: Journal Sentinel, Associated Press and Great Lakes Blogger More on BPA in TreeHugger: FDA Chair Studying BPA Took $ 5 Million Donation From BPA Supporter Final Report on Bisphenol A: It May Harm Kids FDA Says BPA Is Safe For Babies Bisphenol A: How Wal - Mart Became the New FDA Quotes of the Day: Opinions on the FDA Declaring BPA Safe Don't Buy A Nalgene Water Bottle Until You Read This Nalgene Dumps Bisphenol A Like Hot Potato: Possible Effects of BPA More Bad News About Bisphenol A: It Interferes with Chemotherapy Treatments Yet Another Bisphenol A Pile - on: Linked to Heart Disease, Diabetes and Liver Problems New Study: BPA May Make You Stupid and Depressed Sources of BPA: Bisphenol A Is In Your Tomato Sauce Bisphenol A Could Be In Your Teeth BPA Danger may be greater from Tin Cans than Water Bottles Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles Polycarbonate Water bottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPbottles Canada Calls Bisphenol A «Dangerous» Time to Pack In the Polycarbonates Bottled Water - Lifting the Lid: MEC Nixes Nalgenes Health effects: Hot Water + Polycarbonate Bottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles = More Gender - Benders Gender Bender Chemicals Also Make You Fat Alternatives: A Safer Sippy for Your Little Green Angels Stefani Water Purifiers: an Alternative to Plastic Kor One: Reinventing the Water Bottle Are Sigg Aluminum Bottles BPBottles BPA Free?

Basically, the campaign requests that restaurants stop buying bottled water for these reasons: - Tap water is no less safe than bottled water, especially if the tap is filtered - Restaurants will protect customers from the chemicals and pollutants found in various brands of bottled water - The city of San Francisco's water is tested more than 100,000 times each year, and it meets state and federal water quality standards that are stricter than bottled water standards - It's cheaper - It's better for the environment to end the manufacturing of plastic bottles - Focusing on using tap water will refocus monies towards the repair and maintenance of our water infrastructure