04-28-2008, 11:38 AM
Yeah, I've seen disgusting stuff on PBS and the Discovery Channel about albatross chicks starving to death because their bellies are full of disposable plastic lighters. And I don't want to derail your thread about plastic shopping bags, but if the topic is slightly broadened to include plastic water bottles, then I think the greater good will be served.
Not that they fit in albatross bellies, but I have never understood the idea of disposable plastic bottles for drinking water, i.e. the 1/2 liter Aquafina or Evian, or whatever. My stepdaughter says, "I want a water" and gets an Evian, when I was raised in the era of "I want some water", and drank out of the faucet or garden hose. There is a tremendous amount of plastic which goes into those billions of little water bottles, and very few of them, I believe, wind up anywhere other than in the landfill.
Here are some facts about the ridiculous waste of resources involved in the production and distribution of billions of gallons of bottled water, by the National Geographic Society's Green Guide, which I hope would be accepted as a reputable source. There is a complete 'nother rant to be had about the toxins in plastic which leach out into the water that you drink in a bottle of water.
Aloha! ;-)
Not that they fit in albatross bellies, but I have never understood the idea of disposable plastic bottles for drinking water, i.e. the 1/2 liter Aquafina or Evian, or whatever. My stepdaughter says, "I want a water" and gets an Evian, when I was raised in the era of "I want some water", and drank out of the faucet or garden hose. There is a tremendous amount of plastic which goes into those billions of little water bottles, and very few of them, I believe, wind up anywhere other than in the landfill.
Here are some facts about the ridiculous waste of resources involved in the production and distribution of billions of gallons of bottled water, by the National Geographic Society's Green Guide, which I hope would be accepted as a reputable source. There is a complete 'nother rant to be had about the toxins in plastic which leach out into the water that you drink in a bottle of water.
Aloha! ;-)
Aloha! ;-)