Choose filtered rather than bottled water
Our thirst for bottled water has increased to over 150 billion litres of water a year. That’s a lot of water being carted about on lorries and a huge number of plastic bottles being produced and then disposed of. If you’re not keen on drinking tap water because of the high levels of chlorine and limescale it contains, you can reduce these dramatically with a BRITA filter.
In the past, there have been issues with the waste, i.e. used filter cartridges, that are associated with using a water filter. The good news is that BRITA are now providing cartridge recycling points at a selection of high street stores. The new MAXTRA cartridges are 100% recyclable and deliver up to 150 litres of BRITA filtered water per cartridge - so one cartridge worth of water is the equivalent to hundreds of empty bottles. You are not only getting less limescale and less chlorine, but less waste too!
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Tracy Stokes
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Filtering your water is so much better for you and the environment than buying bottled water. Here’s a site I found that compares some of the best water filters by cost and performance. www.WaterFilterComparisons.com
February 16th, 2008 at 10:03 amHi. It’s wonderful that Brita in Europe has developed this take-back recycling program. Unfortunately, Brita in North America is not the same company. It is owned by Clorox and they do not have such a recycling program for us.
For any North Americans reading this post, a group of us are working on a campaign to ask Clorox to create a take-back recycling program for the filter cartridges.
I encourage you to read my blog posts about this issue and then join our Yahoo Group if you’d like. At this point, we are writing letters to the executives at Clorox but will be planning further actions when we figure out our strategy.
http://www.fakeplasticfish.com/labels/Brita.html
Scroll down to the bottom if you’d like to read the posts in chronological order.
Beth
February 16th, 2008 at 2:13 pm