I know it has become sooo trendy to walk around with your bottle of water or sip on FIJI water to show that you are truly fashionable, but its time we stop to think about the repercussions of such actions. Federal Law in Canada and the US does NOT require bottled water to go through a vigorous testing process. In fact, by law, bottled water only has to be as “good” as tap water to be acceptable – legally speaking. Therefore, most of you idiots are drinking tap water with a really fancy label (most of the times, which, that label is made with PVC Plastic which is derived from crude oil). Same goes for the bottle. Most bottle are also made out of crude oil – over 1.5 million tons of crude oil go to making plastic bottles. Scary fact is that almost 80% of water bottles do not get recycled. I enjoy my water as much as the next person, but I am going to try to make a change. My water will come from home in a re-usable plastic bottle that can be washed and used the next day – Nalgene has always been my favourite. You can find all kinds of great choices at http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/ Or, think about how many times you can re-use one disposable water bottle. Every time you can re-use it counts for something. Its quite silly, but its these little things that are killing us everyday. And seriously…..FIJI…$4 for a small bottle of water? Unless its going to do my grocery shopping and masturbate me in my sleep – I will stick to the tap.
Filed under: BUY IT, Toxic | Tagged: FIJI, Nalgene, Plastic, Recycling, Water Bottle
actually, nalgene is good, but still leaks crude oil content into your water, just at a slower rate. the fiji fuckers are dying faster for bing fashionable and it’s so last season. losers.
try aluminum. they have these wicked new light weight aluminum water bottles that don’t even have that nasty metal smell.
they’re good. or glass, but that’s a pain in the ass.
take this advice – if Nalgene doesn’t work, and you are not glued to using plastic – go with aluminum and skip the whole crude oil issue all together. This comes from good friends over at Project Humanity…
You said it. Dude, I’m always refilling my Nalgene. I even went so far as to put a lululemon sticker on it, which I now regret. I was falling to the o so fashionista and thought lulu was cool. Now I don’t – especially since I found out their ’seaweed’ clothes are phony. And now, the Lulu sticker won’t budge off my Nalgene. Slightly pissed.
Thanks for the article.
I think you need to send us more information on LuLu and their fakeness…I await…
I think it’s smart to reuse your water bottles. I like my trusty Nalgene OTG on my desk at work. Regarding aluminum and stainless steel bottles. I think their environmental impact is certainly larger than that of a plastic reusable bottle. I believe you can judge the environmental impact of a product by it’s cost (adjusting for fancy brand names). Aluminum bottles cost from $13-$20 and even more. Stainless bottles cost upwards of $16. A Nalgene bottle costs about $8. So aluminum is 50% more damaging and stainless twice as damaging to the environment as polycarbonate plastic. Why? It takes a lot of energy and work to mine the ore from the ground, smelt the metal from the ore and then form it. Oil comes out of the ground relatively easily and it’s generally easy and uses little energy in comparison to process it. As for the health risks of plastic – I don’t believe it. Polycarbonate has been used in consumer products for 50 years and we’re not dying like flies yet.
MK’s RESPONSE: Well put – I think we have people on both sides of the fence. Although it would be best if the situation did not exist at all, the sad state is that it does and as a result, i think we all need to agree to do what we can to make the situation right. If that means re-using a plastic bottle or a aluminum bottle, we will still cut down on the amount of disposable bottles being created. Thanks MD for the insight – much appreciated!