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Should start with a tax on bottled water, an absurd and unnecessary industry if there ever was one.
by skookumchuck 9y ago
Should start with a tax on bottled water, an absurd and unnecessary industry if there ever was one.
- andrewstuart 9y agoHow about precisely standardised bottles that have return value, and a tax on manufacturers that use non standard sizes.
- wuliwong 9y agoIs the plastic that is coming from these 10 rivers substantially from bottled water?
- andrewstuart 9y agoI visited a relatively remote part of the pacific ocean and walked around a tiny island and every ten feet there was a soft drink bottle.
- Jaruzel 9y agoI live in London. The water that comes out of the tap is totally undrinkable, unless you filter it a few times AND boil it. Ergo, we live on bottled water for cold drinks. We recycle every bottle we use. IF the water came in returnable glass bottles, we'd switch to those in a heartbeat.
- stevesimmons 9y agoI live in London too. The water is perfectly drinkable straight out of the tap. Your comment about needing to boil the water to make it drinkable is truly bizarre. I know of precisely zero people here who boil tap water before drinking it. UK tap water is safer that bottled water because it is monitored much more closely. The responsible government body is the UK Drinking Water Inspectorate. You can read the reports on their website (a good overview is the annual summary letter to the government at [1]). In 2016, 99.96% of samples met the quality requirements of the EU Drinking Water Directive. If you are particularly sensitive to residual chlorine, the DWI advises letting the water stand for a couple of hours [2]. No need to boil or filter. Of course, if you search online, you are more likely to see advice from makers of water filters saying you need to filter the water... [1] http://www.dwi.gov.uk/about/annual-report/2016/letter-eng.pdf http://www.dwi.gov.uk/about/annual-report/2016/letter-eng.pd... [2] http://dwi.defra.gov.uk/consumers/advice-leaflets/chlorine.pdf http://dwi.defra.gov.uk/consumers/advice-leaflets/chlorine.p...
- skookumchuck 9y agoA problem with using filtered water (and nearly all bottled waters are filtered) is the minerals are filtered out as well. Your body needs the minerals. (I save a ton of money drinking tap water, and making my own drip coffee, which takes less time than ordering at Starbucks!)
- Jaruzel 9y agoLondon is a big place. All I can say, is that where I live (bottom edge of London) my water is nasty, and I don't like the taste, or that it comes out of the tap slightly cloudy.