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Bottled Water Pollution
July 18, 2007 |
When I think of bottled water, I think of those big 5-gallon jugs that you tip up on to the water cooler. Those jugs have a deposit charge on them so the bottled water company nearly always gets them back. But what about the bottled water you pick up at the convenience store? Those little 12 or 16 ounce bottles which range in price from $0.99 to $5! They are very popular and convenient. You know you’re getting good water and it’s usually chilled and ready to grab and go. And the water has been purified so you can rest assured it’s good and healthy for you too. They are so popular, that they are apparently over loading our landfills.
It’s easy to see that many people around here (West Michigan) are recycling their plastic containers, but not everyone is, and those handy plastic bottles are usually emptied “on the go” where recycling bins are not always readily available. So they end up in the trash and eventually make their way to the local landfill where they do not decay and are becoming a real problem.
But there is an easy and inexpensive solution. Re-use those plastic water bottles and fill them with water produced from a reverse osmosis system (RO), just like the bottled water plants do. Your water is purified, the plastic bottles get reused instead of recycled or worse, simply discarded. Pick up a mini bottled water plant for your kitchen and we can drastically cut down on the plastic bottle problem. These RO systems can be quite affordable at less than $170 and they can pay for themselves in bottled water costs in a matter of months.
Check out our complete line of reverse osmosis water systems. It only makes good sense no matter how you look at it.
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