The newest craze to hit the market for kids... Aquapod.
You got to be kidding me...
So San Francisco is banning bottled water due to the amount of trash it makes, Aquafina is really just tap water...
Why are people still buying water in mini bottles for day to day use?
Ok, granted this is a good idea for events where you need to give water to lots of people and its hot.. But come on folks your wasting your money for day to day drinking of water!!!!!!!!!!
Check out the "Aquapod" site... this is totally focused on crushing the parents into submission.
The company I work for used to have water coolers in the building, those 5 gallon jugs were reused after being cleaned by our water supply folks. We all had either cups or big bottles at our desk. Then one day we came in and a new refrigerator was put in full of Aquafina water. We were told this was a HUGE money saver, and better for everyone. But then walking through the halls, you would see piles of unused bottles, half drunk, half filled with crap, laying around in everyones offices and cubes.. Then the bottles were seen in both the recycle bin and the trash bin... Where did we improve? I hope that changes soon.
So today we have a new shaped fancy bottle with a cool website for kids.
The idea is great to get them to stop drinking sodas, but don't go from being a diabetic nations to a wastful jerk.
If your kids want fancy bottles, buy them a few, reuse them.
Check out these options:
Metro (for people in LA)
cool Nalgene
Kids Nalgene
when buying a bottle here are the types of plastic to use and avoid the others that are known to be harmful:
Better Plastics
#1 polyethylene terephthalate
#2 High Density Polyethylene
#4 Low Density Polyethylene
#5 Polypropylene
Key info on recycling:
Plastics recycling is also known as "downcycling," because each reiteration of your original bottle is of lower quality than the next, until at last the landfill beckons.
Hmm one has to think, how many billions of plastic soda bottles there are out there.....
2 comments:
I thought it said "AQUAPOO". I figured it was some new enema system for kids.
jon.
Hi, Brenty finally checked this out! Your doggies r way cute. We want to visit but can't for awhile.
Morgen says Izzy is hot.
oh and the water thing...the structure of our society makes it very difficult to do the right things...like drink from glass bottles and reuse everything, we'd have to actually unconvience ourselves a bit and return our glass bottles to stores like they do in Mexico.
I have banned using styrofoam and take plastic containers to get food to go...You should see the looks. People think I'm nutty. I am but not because I try to limit styrofoam use.
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