Fighting the Tide, a Few Restaurants Tilt to Tap Water
Personally I never by bottled water, EVER. I bought one bottle in NYC about 2 years ago and regretted every second of it. It seems like such a waste. As a consumer that is pretty conscious of marketing bullshit, I don’t buy into bottle water at all. We are a first world country for God’s sake, I can drink the tap water in Mexico for crying out loud, why do I need a cool square bottle of water to look hip? On the list of totally pointless things, bottle water tops it.
Did you know to import a single bottle of Evian from France you use 2 oz of oil? Not including the oil used to make the bottle. Think about that 2 oz of oil per bottle. That’s disgusting…
Very interesting read and I hope you will join me in never buying bottled water. Stick to filter tap water if you want to make a difference. Buy a reusable container from target if you take a bottle to work.
Her organization has calculated how much carbon dioxide — a major greenhouse gas — is emitted during the transportation of bottled water imported from France and Italy, the two largest exporters to the United States, and Fiji water, which travels much farther. Together they account for 4,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent, Dr. Solomon said, of the yearly emissions from 700 cars on the road. She called that “a significant contribution to global warming, and fundamentally an unnecessary one.”