No Bottle No Problem

"We will promote easy access to tap water on the streets of Europe to reduce demand for bottled water" - European Commission, May 29 2018 Breaking news: plastic bottels, Q-tips, straws, disposable cutlery, coffee cups, balloons, candy wrappers and other throwaway single use plastics that take 5 seconds to produce and 500 years to degrade need to banned, announce the EU this week. The EU is waging war against plastic waste as part of an urgent plan to clean up Europe's act and ensure that every piece of packaging on the continent is reusable or recyclable by 2030. Following China's decision to ban imports of foreign recyclable material, Brussels last Tuesday launched a plastics strategy designed to change minds in Europe, potentially tax damaging behaviour of manufacturers, and modernise plastic production and collection by investing €350m in research.  Most importantly, 9 out of 10 plastic bottles should be separated and collected in the form of deposit...

Did you know that in the United States, people consume more bottled water than milk or beer? That's right, the average consumer drank over a hundred liters of bottled water a year despite the fact that drinking tap water is safe in over 90% of the USA households. The trend is not limited to just United States. People everywhere consume more and more bottled water. According to research, bottled water is 500-1000 times more expensive than tap water. The crazy thing is that almost half of the bottled water is derived from tap water. You are paying an insane amount of money and wasting time and energy in hauling bottled water to your house, but you get very little in return. Bottled water for the Western world is a scam that was created by big corporations such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Quaker. Leaders in these companies are waging war against tap water because it cuts into their revenue.  Think before giving away your money for a bad cause like bottled water!