A lot of municipalities have tap water as good as most bottled water. The idea of packaging and selling water is largely a scam to sell people something they don't really need. Bottled water has its place where people don't have access to clean drinking water but most of us have no true need for it. It's a small convenience which exacts an excessively negative toll on our environment.
Life isn't better with Evian, Aquafina, Dasani and their kind.
Belinda - 15 years ago
Boxed water is NOT better than bottled where I live. Not at all! That's not a solution, but a big problem for Ohioans. We CANNOT recycle beverage boxes. We can recycle plastic bottles. Of course the best alternative is to use a refillable bottle. Get a filter and filter your water if you do not like the taste of tap water. We need to push the best long-term solutions, not temporary "bandage" solutions.
Frants - 15 years ago
Are you kidding me? Why is there so much focus on a problematic symptom? Just use a transportation system the is just about free.....pipes!!!! You have a tap in you house, use it. If the water is not up to scratch, get the municipal idiots to clean in properly!!! Come on!!! Get real. We have pipes leading to our homes so we could stop fetching containers of water from a water source. Now that we have the water on demand in our homes, we bicker about how we want a more environmentally friendly way of carting water to our homes from a water point outside our homes.
STOP FIGHTING THE SYMPTOMS!!! FIGHT THE PROBLEM.
LizLobert - 15 years ago
All the arguments against bottled water are applicable. If the consumer isn't going to recycle their plastic bottle which is accepted for recycling pretty much anywhere, what is going to make them recycle a tetrapak which others have shown aren't very practical to recycle?
Shipping is more eco friendly? Sure, right up until you fill the paks and then have to ship them to wherever they are to be sold. Unless the bottlers aren't shipping their empty bottles anymore but producing them onsite instead...oh...that's being done? Well then.
I hope this fad dies a quick death. And I think it will if we can get the green-washing alert to the general public ASAP.
Wuz - 15 years ago
A plastic water bottle can be recycled.
These boxes can not.
It seems like everything that is "better for the environment" these days is something made to go into a landfill. (& degrade there)
Ashley - 15 years ago
When it comes to an issue like this, any step forward is still forward! You can't expect the whole world to just change over-night, baby steps!!
Larz - 15 years ago
Boxed water? OK, but not in milk cartons. Can't they come up with
a better shape? You can't put your mouth on the spout very easily.
You'd have to pour into another vessel.
A lot of municipalities have tap water as good as most bottled water. The idea of packaging and selling water is largely a scam to sell people something they don't really need. Bottled water has its place where people don't have access to clean drinking water but most of us have no true need for it. It's a small convenience which exacts an excessively negative toll on our environment.
Life isn't better with Evian, Aquafina, Dasani and their kind.
Boxed water is NOT better than bottled where I live. Not at all! That's not a solution, but a big problem for Ohioans. We CANNOT recycle beverage boxes. We can recycle plastic bottles. Of course the best alternative is to use a refillable bottle. Get a filter and filter your water if you do not like the taste of tap water. We need to push the best long-term solutions, not temporary "bandage" solutions.
Are you kidding me? Why is there so much focus on a problematic symptom? Just use a transportation system the is just about free.....pipes!!!! You have a tap in you house, use it. If the water is not up to scratch, get the municipal idiots to clean in properly!!! Come on!!! Get real. We have pipes leading to our homes so we could stop fetching containers of water from a water source. Now that we have the water on demand in our homes, we bicker about how we want a more environmentally friendly way of carting water to our homes from a water point outside our homes.
STOP FIGHTING THE SYMPTOMS!!! FIGHT THE PROBLEM.
All the arguments against bottled water are applicable. If the consumer isn't going to recycle their plastic bottle which is accepted for recycling pretty much anywhere, what is going to make them recycle a tetrapak which others have shown aren't very practical to recycle?
Shipping is more eco friendly? Sure, right up until you fill the paks and then have to ship them to wherever they are to be sold. Unless the bottlers aren't shipping their empty bottles anymore but producing them onsite instead...oh...that's being done? Well then.
I hope this fad dies a quick death. And I think it will if we can get the green-washing alert to the general public ASAP.
A plastic water bottle can be recycled.
These boxes can not.
It seems like everything that is "better for the environment" these days is something made to go into a landfill. (& degrade there)
When it comes to an issue like this, any step forward is still forward! You can't expect the whole world to just change over-night, baby steps!!
Boxed water? OK, but not in milk cartons. Can't they come up with
a better shape? You can't put your mouth on the spout very easily.
You'd have to pour into another vessel.