Comments on: Corporate Bottled Water Takes the Greenwash to Twitter

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:01:35 +0000

The entire process of manufacturing, storing, shipping, disposing, and recycling plastic is a HUGE negative impact to the planet as a whole. No measure of disposable plastic water bottles can really be considered “green”.

The marketing ploy here is what I like to call “gullibly green”: convincing – no, tricking – customers into believing that the act of purchasing THESE bottles by the buttload is waaaay better than before. To hell with the stainless steel reusables that have been stealing the spotlight from the bottled water industry over recent months from companies like Sigg and Klean Kanteen. Buy THESE bottles, over and over again, and don’t worry about how much you throw away because hey it’s less plastic.

Do yourself, your health, and your planet a favor. Get yourself a Sigg bottle, or any brand of reusable, poison-free bottle to carry your water around, and leave these bottles alone.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 03:44:30 +0000

Tom, you make no apologies for trashing the planet, I hope there is a special circle in Hell for you.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:51:26 +0000

To the writer: Have you taken the time to do the math on all the other products and “things” that contribute to global warming? What you’re going to find is that bottled water is simply a drop in the proverbial bucket when it comes to damage to the environment.

I know it’s “in” to trash-talk bottled water these days and it’s fun to make a statement about saving the environment. But making those statements or actually banning bottled water does nothing to save the environment. You have to look at the big picture, and not attack something that, in many cases, is a necessity.

By: Tom Lauria

Tom Lauria — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:42:26 +0000

Far from being “scared,” the folks who populate the bottled water companies I represent are PROUD of their safe, healthy and convenient products which keep busy people, young and old, well hydrated. We’re delighted some our customers have taken to Twitter to speak up for healthy beverages. BTW, if oil use is measured over an entire year, our entire industry uses 8 “hours” of oil per year to deliver one of the healthiest beverages a person can drink. Since every product has a package, we make no apologies for providing it to appreciative customers. Or communicating on the web. You did forget an important detail: bottled water uses only 1/80 of 1% of municipal water in our products. And our recycling rate is 24%, not 10%, but we’re working hard to improve that figure. The trick is to recycle everything.
Thanks for barbed remarks. We’re always looking for useful feedback. If we were NOT expanding our circle of communications via Twitter and Facebook, you never would have written this.