http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/10/water-bottle-manifesto.html

Good to see you. I agree. There is no getting away from plastic, but it’s return to be to society in the form of recycling and not to nature. For the price of 5 bottles of water, I bought an aluminum water bottle that will last me for years. I know it’s already paid for itself, and it gets a lot of attention. (It’s green with a tree of life printed on it)

For those who don’t know Steve, he’s over at http://www.greenbuildingideas.info. Check it out.

Adam

Thank you for the compliment. The difference it seems between those like you who pick up their trash, and those who don’t, is environmental awareness. You are aware of and want to protect the environment because you spend time in it.
Most people, unfortunately do not. They will make sure that their Television screen isn’t dusty, but they don’t care about what our trails and streams look like.

Thanks for the comment, and yes, please come back and check out future articles. There is also some (I hope) great stuff in the archives.

Have a great day Jay, and for those of you who haven’t already, go here http://www.theenergystate.com/ to check out his website. It’s very good.

Adam

Dasani and Aquafina do use tap water, but to be fair, both products are filtered. In fact, I feel better about properly purified water than spring water from places I’ve never heard of.

I never would have guessed about the balls polluting the watershed.

I’m amazed that anything lives in the Potomac or in water sources near where people live in heavy concentrations. Just imagine the amount of filth that rinses off the roadways every time it rains. Liquid petroleum, rubber particles, heavy vapors from auto emissions, preservative laced vomit from car sickness, discarded diapers, roadside urine charged with medications, lost dentures, hairs saturated with chemical sprays, antifreeze, blue window cleaner, petrochemical bread bags decorated with plastic paints dispensed from aresol machines firing through acetate stencils, and that carbon black grime that gathers wherever internal combustion engines run unceasingly – that’s a lot of stuff and that’s not the half of it.

As for the impact on the local waterways, a massive public education exercise is needed. Here in Australia, local councils and water authorities have been running these for some years. They take the form of signage on gutters and drains saying ‘The Drain Is Just For Rain’ and ‘This Drains Into Sydney Harbour’.

Next they began a litter reduction campaign, even down to reducing cigarette butts from the stormwater stream. The effect has been really great, with water quality improving, and beaches reporting less days when they’ve been closed for swimming due to stormwater pollution.

The best one for me is one that some people have around their swimming pools – ‘We don’t swim in your toilet so don’t pee in our pool!’ Says it all.