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Eco-Friendly Friday: Ditch the Bottled Water

— by Tiffany in Eco Tips, Environment

Eco Friendly Friday TipNo doubt you have heard by now that some of the popular bottled water brands like Aquafina are actually glorified tap water. There is just nothing like a cold, refreshing bottle of $2.00 tap water right? Not!

Save yourself some money and bottle your own “public water source” water in a nice resuable bottle. I recommend Klean Kanteen or Sigg. Not only will you stop funding greedy and manipulative corporations you will also help to reduce the amount of plastic bottles entering the market and our landfills.

And if you are worried about the quality of tap water you can always look into a water filtration system for your house and drink your very own “aquafina”.

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This week’s Eco Friendly Friday participants: In the Key of Life

[tags]water, aquafina, filter, plastic bottles, landfill[/tags]

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Friday, August 17th, 2007

9 Comments

  • http://www.inthekeyoflife.typepad.com Beth H

    oh this is great…I just posted one on my blog.
    Homemade laundry detergent at In the Key of Life

  • Jane

    I don’t think it’s totally fair to call Aquafina and other purified water “glorified tap water.” Aquafina goes through a 7-step purification process that includes reverse osmosis. I think it’s great that people are trying to cut back on how much unnecessary trash they put out but sometimes you still need to fall back on the convenience factor. The tap water in my area is not consistently safe to drink, so if I am not at home using my own filter, I want to buy something that I know is clean…refilling my bottle from a public water fountain is just not an option here.

  • http://www.naturemoms.com Tiffany

    Thanks Beth! It is a great tip too.

  • http://mamaknj.blogspot.com Mama K

    The ideal would to get a reverse osmosis filter put on your own tap water.
    If only I had the $! We do love our Brita and Sigg and KK bottles though.

    For us, the thriftiest green tip has been using cloth… diapers, napkins, rags.
    It took awhile to get into the reusuable mindset, but now I’m branching out into reusable plates and silverwear for parties. (Purchase inexpensive glass plates at Bed Bath & Beyond and flatwear at thriftstores.)

  • Carla

    Sorry to leave as a comment – there seems to be a typo in “pubic water source”

  • http://www.naturemoms.com Tiffany

    Oh heavens! Thanks for letting me know about my error…got that fixed right up. I had a pretty good laugh though!

  • http://soothsayer-says.blogspot.com soothsayer

    I agree! Even if Aquafina is good water when it leaves the filter, it sits in a plastic bottle for God knows how long. Plastic leaches toxic chemicals into your water. Please see my blog post for more information:

    http://soothsayer-says.blogspot.com/2007/08/on-tap-bottled-water-thats-safe-to.html

    Signed, another eco mom– aka soothsayer

  • http://www.factoryfast.com.au linen

    Yeah, and I even worry about so called plastic ‘reusable’ bottles. The only ones I will really trust will be those I buy at serious camping/outdoor stores. The rest I don’t trust. I know that a lot of brands like Aquafina claim to store their water into reusable bottles (therefore there is no leak of dangerous chemicals) but I’m not inclined to agree with them on this point. I still think there’s some cheating going on somewhere down the line.
    In the long run, even though water purification systems can be expensive, it might just cost you less than years of buying $2.00 water!

  • http://www.portraitkingdom.com portrait oil painting

    I agree with you. Here in our place water is one of the major sources of diseases. Because of this most household are resorting to bottled or processed drinking water. In our house, dad bought this water purifier which contains some stones or pebbles that contribute in the purification of water. This can be used several times or after some time. The pebbles shall then undergo activation in order to revive their purifying activity. Since we started using this purifier, our expenses on buying processed water decreased.