Green Ideas

What about recycling of PET bottles. Recycling of waterbottles has become a huge success over the past 2 years making it possible to spin and weave materials out of melted down PET plastics.
Check it out, consumers are able to but T-Shirts, Caps, Bags etc.. all made from recycled water bottles. If not better, A company like Coca Cola or Pepsi should make this their primary initiative to make all their promotional activation products out of these products?? those are just 2 companies who come to mind, but thinking if all water bottlers made this their common goal and made are great deal of effort to get recycling programmes to clean up the bottles.
Corn plastics are fast becoming a realistic approach to the way consumers should start thinking, these materials are 100% bio degradable and disolve after 3 months. Its up to some clear people to invent something of the same initiative that the bottle will only start to decompose once the bottle has opened. Now theirs an idea??

You are right. However, Convenience always seems to triumph over common sense. Consumerism, which is the system we pretty much have across most of the free world is always about convenience. The other issue is safe drinking water. Companies can provide safe drinking water at a profit for them and can continue to do so if said companies wish to stay in business. Governments in the 3rd world, however, can unfortunately not provide safe drinking water. There are technology breakthroughs hat could help people in the 3rd world, but the cost and access can prevent more sensible solutions from working. Like your Idea, but this is a tough one to see happen. Would love an example of where it is working though.

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Not just bottled water - but any bottled drink where you buy, drink once and dispose of the bottle. Why not bring a water bottle, or keep a mug at work? I used to drink 2-3 plastic bottled drinks a day at work, then I started using a mug and drank only water, tea or very occasionally milk or juice from larger containers which were shared among my colleagues. That alone saved the production, transportation and disposal of up to 900 plastic bottles a year.

The basic question to ask oneself becomes: why dispose or even recycle when you can just reduce and re-use? Honestly I have found no decrease in my quality of living, on the contrary, I feel good knowing I am not consuming unnecessarily.

On a related note, look at the ingredients list of common bottled drinks you consume on a daily basis. Think about how many resources were consumed, and pollution generated, to extract, produce and transport all the ingredients that went into the drink. Is it really necessary? If not, exercise your power as a consumer.