Say No to Bottled Water
Does it seem to you that everyone you meet has a bottle of water in their hand? Seriously, unless you are in a store, it seems that you can't look around and not see bottled water in someone's hand.
We have been telling our kids for years to say no to drugs, why are we so hesitant to say no to bottled water? OK, it may sound severe to compare the two, but honestly, neither are good for you.
Think about it; you are drinking water from a plastic bottle, a plastic bottle that is sometimes made from dangerous compounds.
And let's face it, no plastic is good when you are eating or drinking from it, I don't care what the manufacturers tell you.
Plastic isn't natural and it has a nasty habit of leaching it's components into your food or drink.
And take into account what happens to those plastic bottles when you are done with them.
Oh...
you hadn't thought about that? Only about 20% of plastic bottles are re-cycled each year.
The rest end up in landfills to sit forever and continue to leach their toxins into the ground and those toxins leach into ground water.
And where do you think that ground water goes? It turns up in your tap water and, get this, in your next bottle of water.
Bottled water isn't really any safer than your tap water.
It is many times just the same water, if not less pure.
Bottled water does not carry the same strict regulations that your local tap water does.
In all honesty, about 25% of bottled water is actually just regular old tap water from where ever it happens to be bottled.
So you like to drink water throughout the day.
That's a good thing.
Just bring a safe container to drink from home (i.
e.
a stainless steal travel mug) and fill it at work! Buy an inline filter for your home or get a filter for your kitchen faucet.
Yes, you will spend money upfront, but you will save yourself hundreds of dollars and save yourself from drinking from some plastic bottle.
People, the water you get from your tap has safety standards applied to it, bottled water doesn't have as high a set of safety standards.
For those who think that they are saving the environment by re-filling their water bottles over and over are fooling themselves by thinking that they are doing a good deed.
Those plastic bottles are leaching toxic chemicals into your 'healthy' water every time you refill them.
If you really have the need to buy a bottle of water, opt for a glass bottle.
Considering that a lot of bottled water is really just tap water with a fancy name, just say no to bottled water and drink filtered water from your own tap.
We have been telling our kids for years to say no to drugs, why are we so hesitant to say no to bottled water? OK, it may sound severe to compare the two, but honestly, neither are good for you.
Think about it; you are drinking water from a plastic bottle, a plastic bottle that is sometimes made from dangerous compounds.
And let's face it, no plastic is good when you are eating or drinking from it, I don't care what the manufacturers tell you.
Plastic isn't natural and it has a nasty habit of leaching it's components into your food or drink.
And take into account what happens to those plastic bottles when you are done with them.
Oh...
you hadn't thought about that? Only about 20% of plastic bottles are re-cycled each year.
The rest end up in landfills to sit forever and continue to leach their toxins into the ground and those toxins leach into ground water.
And where do you think that ground water goes? It turns up in your tap water and, get this, in your next bottle of water.
Bottled water isn't really any safer than your tap water.
It is many times just the same water, if not less pure.
Bottled water does not carry the same strict regulations that your local tap water does.
In all honesty, about 25% of bottled water is actually just regular old tap water from where ever it happens to be bottled.
So you like to drink water throughout the day.
That's a good thing.
Just bring a safe container to drink from home (i.
e.
a stainless steal travel mug) and fill it at work! Buy an inline filter for your home or get a filter for your kitchen faucet.
Yes, you will spend money upfront, but you will save yourself hundreds of dollars and save yourself from drinking from some plastic bottle.
People, the water you get from your tap has safety standards applied to it, bottled water doesn't have as high a set of safety standards.
For those who think that they are saving the environment by re-filling their water bottles over and over are fooling themselves by thinking that they are doing a good deed.
Those plastic bottles are leaching toxic chemicals into your 'healthy' water every time you refill them.
If you really have the need to buy a bottle of water, opt for a glass bottle.
Considering that a lot of bottled water is really just tap water with a fancy name, just say no to bottled water and drink filtered water from your own tap.
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