Comments on: Brita & Nalgene: Filter Water Yourself http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/05/brita-nalgene-filter-water-yourself/ join the ecolution Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:56:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: admin http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/05/brita-nalgene-filter-water-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-521 admin Fri, 23 May 2008 23:34:53 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/?p=316#comment-521 Kori - I wholeheartedly agree that any awareness to switching off of bottled water is great. Even if Brita has some downsides, I still think it's better than buying cases of water. And to answer everyone - I am a Sigg guy. I have two (home and work), my wife has one, and each of my kids has one. My daughter is probably the only first grader in her school with a Sigg - it's pretty darn cute, though - little hearts all over it. My son has a soccer one. Some people at work had meetings with Google and they gave them Google branded Sigg bottles - pretty cool Kori –
I wholeheartedly agree that any awareness to switching off of bottled water is great. Even if Brita has some downsides, I still think it’s better than buying cases of water.

And to answer everyone – I am a Sigg guy. I have two (home and work), my wife has one, and each of my kids has one. My daughter is probably the only first grader in her school with a Sigg – it’s pretty darn cute, though – little hearts all over it. My son has a soccer one. Some people at work had meetings with Google and they gave them Google branded Sigg bottles – pretty cool

]]> By: kory http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/05/brita-nalgene-filter-water-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-519 kory Fri, 23 May 2008 13:29:34 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/?p=316#comment-519 maybe I can be the devil's advocate for a moment, but at a minimum, at least this campaign will get people thinking about the problem. And who is to say it will have the effect of people rushing directly to the arms of brita. Random bottled water drinker might stop and say ...gee, I guess I never really thought about how much waste is involved. I don't think society as a whole is going to make the great leap in the right direction without turning around first and taking the time to pause, and if its a half measure like buying a reusable plastic bottle to replace the 1000's of plastic bottles they would otherwise use, well...its a start. And some might go so far as to even wonder why plastic at all? maybe I can be the devil’s advocate for a moment, but at a minimum, at least this campaign will get people thinking about the problem. And who is to say it will have the effect of people rushing directly to the arms of brita. Random bottled water drinker might stop and say …gee, I guess I never really thought about how much waste is involved.

I don’t think society as a whole is going to make the great leap in the right direction without turning around first and taking the time to pause, and if its a half measure like buying a reusable plastic bottle to replace the 1000′s of plastic bottles they would otherwise use, well…its a start. And some might go so far as to even wonder why plastic at all?

]]> By: Julia http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/05/brita-nalgene-filter-water-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-511 Julia Thu, 22 May 2008 19:55:03 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/?p=316#comment-511 Have they started making their bottles out of something other than plastic? Doesn't it require oil to manufacture their products, too? Yes, I realize that a reusable bottle cuts down on the amount of natural resources that we waste, but I'm really tired of plastic touching everything I eat and drink! By the way, has Brita eliminated BPA from their pitchers and filters yet? Give me a 100% recyclable metal bottle with some good, old-fashioned tap water and I'm good to go. Have they started making their bottles out of something other than plastic? Doesn’t it require oil to manufacture their products, too? Yes, I realize that a reusable bottle cuts down on the amount of natural resources that we waste, but I’m really tired of plastic touching everything I eat and drink!

By the way, has Brita eliminated BPA from their pitchers and filters yet? Give me a 100% recyclable metal bottle with some good, old-fashioned tap water and I’m good to go.

]]> By: Katie http://www.screamtobegreen.com/2008/05/brita-nalgene-filter-water-yourself/comment-page-1/#comment-510 Katie Thu, 22 May 2008 17:33:39 +0000 http://www.screamtobegreen.com/?p=316#comment-510 Brita doesn't have an environmental leg to stand on based on the fact that they don't recycle their carbon filters here in North America (but apparently the UK is requiring them to). Jeeze, viewed with this information, these ads are SO hypocritical. http://www.takebackthefilter.org/ Brita doesn’t have an environmental leg to stand on based on the fact that they don’t recycle their carbon filters here in North America (but apparently the UK is requiring them to). Jeeze, viewed with this information, these ads are SO hypocritical.

http://www.takebackthefilter.org/

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