Recycle plastic water bottles? pish posh?

Question

ok, so you can't throw water bottles away, and it's bad to recycle thum.

so what do you suggest we should do?

what should happen?

Answer 1

Tap water is not free, plus where I live the city water comes out a little orange on a monthy basis. I have  to buy bottled water for the fear of my children not getting cancer when they get older

Answer 2

don't use water bottles?

what's wrong with tap water?

why would you pay for something that's free?

why would you pay for something that is (or should be) a human RIGHT?

Answer 3

Plant plants in it, you don't destroy plastic, yet you produce more oxygen! Extra ones, just keep using them to bring outdoors...

Answer 4

how about this:

just reuse them—–fill them with tap water (almost all cities have a good water system)

but make sure that they are good bottles so that they won't wear out too fast

(usually the water bottles that cost a little more last a little longer)

once they wear out, or become really flimsy, or you get tired of them, you can put plants in them or use them to store marbles or whatever

or take 'em to the beach and fill 'em with seawater and sand!

just kidding :)

by the way,

why you can't recycle them?

please explain

Answer 5

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean there is an area twice the size of the United States that is covered by plastic trash which has stuck together.  Of course there are millions of dead fish caught in it.  How does that make you feel?

The water in bottled water does not have to pass the contamination tests that the water in city reservoirs does.  It's less safe.  The two safest ones are DaSani and Aquafina because they bottle water that comes right out of the reservoir.  Do you really want to pay them for that?

One bottle of water costs as much as two thousand gallons out of the tap.

The PCBs in plastic bottles leach into the water.  Over the long run they have been shown to cause cancer.

ADD IT ALL UP - don't drink bottled water.  Get a sealable container, fill it with water, put it in your refrigerator, and take that with you.

Answer 6

You may use:My Best Recycling Idea

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container.   Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container.  Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions:  Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up.  Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline.  Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container.  Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon  to complete your planter container.  Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant.  If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.   http://www.zone10.com/tech/NASA/Fyh.htm

Answer 7

In the UK (Shropshire county) we can recycle only plastic bottles with the recycle logo on and the number 1 or 2.  Which leaves a load of other types of plastic which we can't recycle.  

I think that plastic manufacturers should be made to stick to only certain types of plastic, the type that can be recycled.  Maybe governments should adopt a policy  to ensure that only recyclable plastic is used for foodstuffs etc!  But this would not go down very well with the big business of plastic manufacturing :-(

Also, as previously posted, re use the water bottles, better still, use tap water.

Answer 8

if you have to buy water, at least buy it in the large bulk sized plastic that can be recycled and use refillable containers to fill your water thirst.

also, what about renting and using the really large ones, that deliver, and they take them away and reuse them and you can do as I do and buy a sig aluminum container and use that to drink your water from?