Saving School Budgets and the Environment In a Grumpy Economy

The biggest problem with bottled water is the plastic. The biggest problem with non-bottled water is the tap—that is, the lack of taps.  It’s hard to advocate for more reusable water consumption without water to actually put in those bottles.

In fact, banning the plastic bottle can be more of a challenge than banning the bag. The replacement product for a plastic bag is a reusable bag. Easy enough. But replacing plastic water bottles requires two components: a reusable water bottle and access to water. Less easy.

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How to Keep Your Baby Girl From Getting Depressed and Anxious

We’ve written before about how easy it is to make your kids sick by letting them play around with single use disposables like they’re as safe as lead paint chips or something.  

Now there’s even more definitive proof that disposable items are bad for us. The evidence against BPA (bisphenol-A) a common additive to plastic that thickens it while allowing it to remain flexible, has been mounting for years. As far as chemicals go, BPA is your regular utility player, appearing in everything from plastic water bottles to water coolers jugs, sippy cups to baby bottles.

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The Only Time Ever When Plastic Water Bottles Are Okay

Yes, nothing matters to us more than kicking the single use disposable habit in America.  The societal and environmental implications of bottled water consumption on a regular basis during non-emergency times are detrimental to the environment, very expensive, and in many cases very unhealthy. But they serve their purpose. Like ice cream and a big juicy steak, once in a while and on special occasions, bottled water is okay. But while eating double chocolate chunk and red meat everyday stretches out our midline, drinking bottled water every day shrinks our wallets and bulks up our favorite beaches and parks with plastic.

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Recycling Problems for Coke

This is a perfect opportunity to point out that we're not against the drink--we're against the bottle.  After all, what's better than an ice-cold coke on a hot summer day? There's no problem with drinking Coke at home, in free throw range of the recycling bin! But there are many problems with drinking it on the go out of a plastic bottle, as Mike Esterl describes. 

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