By not
buying plastic water bottles, you save resources and reduce the amount of trash produced.
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.
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.
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.
If you must
buy plastic water bottles, purchase the largest bottle possible to save on packaging.
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 BP
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 BP
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 BP
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 BP
Bottles 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 BP
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 BP
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 BP
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 BP
Bottles 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