Comments on: Top Reasons to Refuse Bottled Water

By: Brian Gillingham

Brian Gillingham — Fri, 15 May 2009 18:35:22 +0000

I agree completely! What is better than recycling or reusing plastic products?? The answer is the 3rd big “R” – reduce = don’t purchase them in the first place.

Isn’t it so scary that there’s a floating mass of garbage in the Pacific between Hawaii and the west coast… this will be around for hundreds of years! The garbage supposedly covers an area larger than the state of Texas.

Plastic seemed like such a great idea at the time, but it is obviously used in a primarly “disposable” fashion and it is also used to make far too many things (from children’s toys, drinking bottles, wrappings, furniture, electronics, etc., etc.)

By: Julie

Julie — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:36:55 +0000

Good point Julia – that’s even more of the reason to reduce your water bottle consumption (if not elimiate it completely!)

As far as the Nalgene recycling, most of the bottles i’ve seen are #7 – which aren’t common to recycle. You can seek if any local centers recycle this number, or reuse your old nalgenes to water plants or use as flower ‘vases’.

By: MaleGene

MaleGene — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:58:46 +0000

any suggestions on recycling my “contaminated” nalgenes?

By: Julia

Julia — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:25:09 +0000

Even the small percentage of these bottles that are recycled can’t be made into more water bottles. They have to be made into a lower form of plastic like fleece or docks!