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Movies, Books, Politicians the Water Bottle is Under Siege
(0)Take a plastic water bottle at your own hazard; the sway of widespread perspective is turning against you. From popular rating documentaries, to articles and political campaigns, the biggest topic around is the horror around bottled water and the waste of resources that the industry generates.
The processing, transportation and removal of water in petrochemical plastic bottles demands tremendous waste of water and energy, and creates tremendous measures of greenhouse gases and waste.
Director of the upcoming documentary ‘Tapped: get off the bottle’ Stephanie Soechtig states “1500 water bottles end up in landfill every second – that’s 30 million water bottles a day! We wanted to show people just how much waste is generated by bottled water.” The people behind Tapped are pushing the movie with their across-America roadshow, taking pledges from donors to take down their water bottle waste and exchanging their used plastic water bottle for a reusable stainless steel bottle. Download Tapped from Amazon or iTunes.
Another such film ‘The Story of Bottled Water’ was released on World Water Day in March. By Annie Leonard of the well-received ‘The Story of Stuff’, this animated film shows the method that amounts to swaying Americans into buying over hundreds of millions of bottles of water each and every week, compared with a few cents cost for a drink from the tap. See this short film on You Tube.
Through her book ‘Bottlemania’, writer Elizabeth Royte explores one of the biggest marketing takeovers of the twentieth century and provides a powerful environmental alarm bell. She details the questions we must at some point understand. Who distributes our water? What happens when a bottled-water business holds your town’s source? Is the water that comes out of a tap absolutely safe? What is really the environmental price of making, transportation and disposal of a single plastic water bottle?
Politicians from around the nation are realising that they must take responsibility for action – markedly when the institutions where they debate are major consumers of bottled water. How often do we witness a politician at a meeting sipping from a water bottle. They can locate a water glass in Parliament House.
Leslie Samuelrich of Corporate Accountability International, said “Cities and states are spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on bottled water, and that’s not to mention what’s spent to deal with all the plastic bottles that are thrown out.”
In July 2009, the NSW rural town of Bundanoon became the first community in Australia to ban the retailing of bottled water. About 60 places in the US and some towns in Canada and the United Kingdom have now stopped expending taxpayer money on bottled water.
It is certain that this problem will be debated at World Water Week 2010 from September 5 to 11 in Stockholm, Sweden, the annual meeting for the planet’s most current water-related dilemmas.
Article written by Tracey Bailey, founder of Biome Eco Stores.
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Water Bottles Need to be Clean to be Safe: How to Clean Your Water Bottle
(0)You are doing the right thing for the planet by filling up at home and carrying a reusable water bottle and you’ve chosen a safe, non-toxic bottle-but if it’s not kept clean then it may not be healthy.
Whether your drink bottle is a stainless steel bottle, SIGG bottle or a BPA free plastic water bottle, it is important to stop mould and other deposits forming in the bottle.
Wash your drink bottles with warm, soapy water at the end of every day and let the bottle air dry upside down with the top off every day where possible.
Should any mineral deposits or lime scale form inside, fill your clean water bottle with Distilled White Vinegar and let it soak for 24 hours. Then rinse with warm water mixed with one tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda), rinse out and let dry. Spots inside the bottle that look like “corrosion” are most likely a mineral deposit.
Fill your bottle with filtered water wherever possible. It tastes so much better, but also because water contains different minerals in every area this may affect what happens inside your bottle.
Do not allow liquids such as fruit juice to ferment inside the bottle.
With all reusable water bottles you can also try SIGG cleaning tablets and a specially-designed SIGG bottle cleaning brush, or simply a baby bottle brush. Only ever use a soft brush on aluminium bottles with lining like SIGG so as not to damage the lining. Stainless steel water bottles like Klean Kanteen and Nathan can handle a hard brush.
While all bottles are technically dishwasher-safe, it is recommended to not put them in a dishwasher. Most dishwasher powders are caustic, so they will eat into the metal of your bottle and damage the exterior pattern. Bottle tops should also not be put in the dishwasher because extreme heat expands and deteriorates the plastic.
Never freeze metal bottles as metal can split even with only a little water inside. Water does not always expand in a predictable direction! Freezing plastic water bottles is also not advisable because it may cause the plastic to breakdown and toxins to leach. It is fine to place your bottle in the refrigerator.
Tips on cleaning your water bottle brought to you by Biome Eco Stores Australia.
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