What are we expected to re-fill our used water bottles with, exactly?
Obviously not mineral water, since then we'd just be pouring water from one bottle into another.
And we're not going to fill them from the tap, since if we were happy to drink tap water, we wouldn't have bought the water bottle in the first place.
Perhaps we're being told to buy the big water bottles, and then pour the water into smaller bottles, although I would have thought people bought water in different size bottles because it suits their particular lifestyle or purpose. Am I going to fill a small bottle from a big bottle before walking into the living room to drink it?
And clearly this isn't aimed at soft drinks, since they also already come in their own bottles.
I don't condemn dozens of plastic bottles each week to landfill because I like the idea of creating a pollution problem, or because the idea of wasting finite resources amuses me. I throw them away because governments in the Gulf are too lazy to instigate effective recycling regimes.
I agree that everyone should do what they can to live an ecologically responsible lifestyle, but recycling programs have to start at an industry and government level. Encouraging people to reuse plastic bottles is not without merit, but it seems to me to be unlikely to make any recognisable impact on the problem at hand.
Nice idea.
But I'm a little confused.
What are we expected to re-fill our used water bottles with, exactly?
Obviously not mineral water, since then we'd just be pouring water from one bottle into another.
And we're not going to fill them from the tap, since if we were happy to drink tap water, we wouldn't have bought the water bottle in the first place.
Perhaps we're being told to buy the big water bottles, and then pour the water into smaller bottles, although I would have thought people bought water in different size bottles because it suits their particular lifestyle or purpose. Am I going to fill a small bottle from a big bottle before walking into the living room to drink it?
And clearly this isn't aimed at soft drinks, since they also already come in their own bottles.
I don't condemn dozens of plastic bottles each week to landfill because I like the idea of creating a pollution problem, or because the idea of wasting finite resources amuses me. I throw them away because governments in the Gulf are too lazy to instigate effective recycling regimes.
I agree that everyone should do what they can to live an ecologically responsible lifestyle, but recycling programs have to start at an industry and government level. Encouraging people to reuse plastic bottles is not without merit, but it seems to me to be unlikely to make any recognisable impact on the problem at hand.