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Yeah this is my issue. I have to drink bottled water for water quality reasons. How am I supposed to avoid plastic there?
by jimbob45 6y ago
Yeah this is my issue. I have to drink bottled water for water quality reasons. How am I supposed to avoid plastic there?
- robin_reala 6y agoFiltered water? Sure, the filter cartridges are plastic, but I’d guess that you’d reduce your plastic usage in general.
- atq2119 6y agoThis is very much a cultural thing. Over here, you can easily get bottled water in glass bottles. The delivery services will pick up your tray with empty bottles to be reused. That's reuse after cleaning, not recycling!
- hef19898 6y agoEurope, I guess? I had a talk late last year with a local brewery (traditinal bavarian one, family operated since the 1400s). And apparently everyone, especially Coca Cola, is going for glass right now. To the point reusable glass bottles are an actual bottle neck for them. Mind you, depsite the Covid caused demand drop. That was quite an interesting fun fact for me.
- dheera 6y agoCouple of options: (a) I used to live in Malaysia where tap water wasn't drinkable as-is, but filtering and boiling made it drinkable and tasted just fine. Hot water dispensers are pretty standard to have in most Asian homes; just put the water through a filtering pitcher before pouring into the hot water dispenser. (b) Subscribe to those 5-gallon big blue bottles and a dispenser. They get actually reused instead of downcycled.
- inter_netuser 6y agoBlue plastic bottles leach endocrine disruptors, either BPA or BP-S.
- f6v 6y agoOne thing I miss about Germany is S.Pellegrino in glass bottles. Since I moved to Belgium it has been incredibly hard to come by glass-bottled water.
- seszett 6y agoI've found glass-bottled water easy to find in Belgium, I buy cases of Ginstberg (they have both still and carbonated water) in glass bottles in a supermarket here in West Flanders. I know at least a couple places where you can buy it (Huis Maria in Harelbeke, Vanuxeem in Ploegsteert, so both Flanders and Wallonia) so I would assume those to be widespread enough throughout the country. To me coming from France it was Belgium that was the easier place to find glass-bottled water :)
- f6v 6y agoI only shop at AH and Delhaize, the choice isn't that great there.
- thorin 6y agoCan't you just drink tap water, or if it really tastes that bad use a water filter. The idea of buying a new bottle every time you want a drink of water seems insane to me!
- seszett 6y agoI assumed they were talking about reused glass bottles. Here (so in Belgium) I buy cases of water bottles with a deposit and return them empty. The bottles are reused, and the water tastes a lot better than at least my tap water (in Antwerp - the tap water comes from a stagnant canal used for merchandise shipping, and last year for example it turned green and smelled of algae for a while after a ship carrying fertilizer capsized).
- f6v 6y agoI have a filter for cooking/making tea. However there's something about S.Pellegrino and others that makes it taste much better. And the filtered water has completely different taste in the first day vs the rest of the month. And yeah, you usually give the bottles back. However, it's much more common in Germany than in Belgium, it seems. I have never seen a line to give the bottles back in Gent, unlike Berlin.
- inter_netuser 6y agoDrink Voss? and re-fillVOSS bottles with distilled water? You can get distilled water delivered in very large glass jugs (4 gallons i think?)
- fhsm 6y agoSome thought that distilled water may not be desirable: https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientschap12.pdf https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
- inter_netuser 6y agovery minor concern vs. benefits you get. This is mostly about dissolved minerals, carbonates etc, and you should be able to control trivially. I know I would prefer to know exactly what's in my water.
- codr7 6y agoThere are some pretty decent filters out there that are not crazy expensive, guess it depends on how bad the water is though.
- ashtonkem 6y agoGet a water filter and drink tap. They sell filters made primarily out of steel.
- triceratops 6y ago> I have to drink bottled water for water quality reasons Why is your water quality bad?