Comments | kiwi_dragonfly: Speaking of environmental causes...

kiwi_dragonfly

Speaking of environmental causes...

Mar 28, 2009 21:18

...I'm thinking about this because of my brother walrusjester 's post about observing earth hour - which I am doing as well here in my motel room (computer unplugged and running on batteries, fyi).

So, I am wondering if any of my four live journal friends knows whether metal water bottles are really better for the environment than plastic ones. Metal water ( Read more... )

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avidreadergirl March 29 2009, 05:12:59 UTC

Re-usable water bottles are the way to go, I personally don't care what they are made of I think both plastic and metal effect taste (not for the better). I'd prefer to use glass if I didn't know what happens when you try to be active with a glass bottle (my brother was skateboarding with one, fell and needed 26 stitches in his arm. He come home screaming and bleeding everywhere and mom was gone... I think I was 9 it wasn't fun, so yeah glass= taste better but much more likely to cut ya)

Frankly I think you'd be better off with a regular canteen type water bottle, something that you can easily hang around your neck is long instead of thick etc. Or you could go really old school and get a leather water bottle (or bladder some critter isn't using, isn't that what they used to do in the old days) ;-)

kiwi_dragonfly March 31 2009, 02:25:00 UTC

I've thought about the canteen option, and I definitley think it is a good one. And, um... thanks but no thanks about both the leather bottle and bladder suggestions... :-)

walrusjester March 29 2009, 17:37:39 UTC

Plastic bottles are made from fossil hydrocarbons, which are also hard to extract from the ground. Plus they leave us at the mercy of OPEC. Plus plus, now that you have your one metal bottle, chances are that you won't be asking them to fire up the ol' smelter and make you another, right?

kiwi_dragonfly March 31 2009, 02:22:02 UTC

I *love* the metal water bottle you gave me - I'm using it today, in fact.

silverwaterfall March 29 2009, 19:56:16 UTC

I thought the idea behind metal bottles being better was they are healthier for us than plastic. And better to re-use. Glass is the best, but as Sash pointed out, might be a bit dangerous for you and your "undulating" environment (new word you taught me!).

But I think what you really want to know is - do you really have to carry around metal bottles? Yes you do. No plastic. Ick.

kiwi_dragonfly March 31 2009, 02:20:54 UTC

Yeah, I'm sure they are healthier for us than plastic. I just don't like that they're marketed as an eco thing (look at the displays at Whole Foods sometime) because that feels deceptive.

I think the problem I have it is is more with the larger issue of deceptive marketing, which is icky.

zamzow March 30 2009, 01:59:31 UTC

friend #4 reporting for duty ( ... )

kiwi_dragonfly March 31 2009, 02:31:29 UTC

I can't say enough times how excited I am that you and Mary are going to be parents! Yay!

The water bottle issue is a big one for me, because I spend anywhere between 50-75% of my working hours outside in temps from 20 degrees to 120 degrees. And I have to drink water from some sort of non-glass recepticle when I'm out there. And I don't want my ears to fall off (or to die from some horrible cancer, for that matter).

Currently I drink H20 from a metal water bottle and from a Camelback, which has got to be killing me slowly.

Oh well. We suffer for our art I guess.