Comments on: Sitting with a plastic water bottle

By: Canada Guy

Canada Guy — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:28:48 +0000

We all know water bottles are wasteful and bad for the environment, yet their production is growing rapidly everywhere. Just 20 years ago the market for plastic water bottles was practically nonexistent, but today we produce billions of these completely unnecessary products. There can be only one sane response, plastic water bottles must be banned!

http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/10/water-bottle-manifesto.html
.-= Canada Guy´s last blog ..Water Bottle Manifesto =-.

By: beyesn

beyesn — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:39:00 +0000

ensojul –

Love the effort Aveda is making with the plastic bottle caps. We’ve written about it on our blog and have at least inspired one school in our area to start collecting them for recycling.
http://www.inthehopper.org/sustainability/avedarecycling/

By: ensojul

ensojul — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:12:00 +0000

I love your site! It always makes me so conscious of my plastic uses, which in turn makes me feel so guilty. I’m sure you’ve heard of this, but I’ve been collecting plastic bottle caps from my office. Once the bin is full I take them to the local aveda salon. They have a cap recycling program: http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp
Anyway, again, I love your site. I just started one that talks about crafts using reused materials. There’s not much on there at the moment, but check it out if you get a chance and let me know what you think!

By: Nouveau Riche

Nouveau Riche — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:17:00 +0000

I love the forgiveness and honoring both sides. I need that if ever someone like me is to change her environmental impact practices.

By: Aurora

Aurora — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:52:00 +0000

It is so hard to be perfect with the never-ever-use-a-plastic-water bottle again pledge in our world!
I just made a trip to the grand canyon –a tour really–in a car (land rover) and I took my water bottle–but it was 98 degrees and we were on this tour all day–and they had a whole cooler of really cold water–in plastic bottles. argh!!!
Of course, I used up my canteen water first–but it was not enough–so I ended up drinking 3 bottle of water–I told the tour driver–I hope you will recycle all these bottles and he promised to…but I still feel bad—I could have asked him to help me refill my canteen somewhere (like make a stop) but I went with what was convenient–and cold.

At one of the gift shops—this was the West Rim of the grand canyon which is owned by the Hulapai tribe. Anyhow the Native American Hualapai Indian girl waiting on me in the gift shop–I bought one postcard to send to a friend–and she tried to give me a plastic bag for it!! I said to her–”I do not need a plastic bag–plastic bags are bad for the Earth. Her response: “I hear you”— it was all I could do to stop from saying “then why are you giving out those plastic bags? why not ask your employers to stop doing that?” I guess I felt like it was not the place to make a big issue of it…but it made me sad. Maybe I missed an opportunity….

By: kale for sale

kale for sale — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 05:33:00 +0000

This is so perfect. I had a very similar voice about bananas and why people couldn’t just eat fruit that’s in season locally instead of shipping bananas from all corners of the earth. Then I realized the voice was only succeeding in hurting me and somehow it’s disipated. Now of course, I want to stand at the local fish counter with a heavy purse and whack people that order fish that’s in the red/danger categories. Aren’t heads constant adventures? I’m going to go meditate now. Thanks for a great post.

By: Robert V. Sobczak

Robert V. Sobczak — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:06:00 +0000

I drink too much water to bother with bottles. I drink over a gallon per day … right from the source: the spicket. I’m a hydrologist so hold myself to that higher level (most of the time).

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:57:00 +0000

As I go through massage therapy school, honoring the voice in my head becomes such a natural part of who I am. It’s a wonderful experience and yes, the world is perfect just as it is, just like each of us is perfect just as we are.

By: Green Bean

Green Bean — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:22:00 +0000

Ah, what a post! I agree that we must have forgiveness. None of us is perfect. We are all working toward the same goal but go about it in different ways at different paces. It is also, however, equally important to give voice to that screaming voice inside our heads.

By: Anita K

Anita K — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:00 +0000

Since I have started my own GreenUP Challenge, my awareness of waste when I go out has skyrockted.

I really bothered me last week when I eat in at a restaurant that they served my hot chocolate in a disposable cup! With a lid! At least the lid was recyclable so I brought it home to the recycle bin. Next time (IF) I go there again, I will ask for a mug or I won't purchase the item. That's action with my wallet!