Portable Glass Water Bottle By Love Bottle
by Kristin Underwood, San Diego, CA on 07.28.08
Image courtesy of Love Bottle.
Created by a nutrition consultant in San Francisco who wanted a healthier (and cuter) way to carry her water. Its her hope that these Love Bottle recycled bottles will not only spread clean water to everyone, but also spread a little love in the process. By putting the word love on the bottle, its hoped that it will change the energy of the water and thus bring love to you when you drink it. Think this is all hocus-pocus? No worries, those glass bottles are good if for no other reason that they keep plastic water bottles with their chemical-leaching properties out of our hands and out of landfills.
These 20% recycled glass bottles come in two sizes and with really cute designs and color patterns and they have a ceramic swing-top lid. You can even write on the designs themselves to add your own flair. They also offer a cushy, carrying bag in case you're worried about breaking that glass bottle. Need to clean out that bottle? No problem, Love Bottle has a special double-sided bottle brush to clean out all 1000ml of bottle.
Partnerships for Cleaner Water
Love Bottle also works with Global Water to provide safe drinking water to developing countries around the world. Love Bottle also works with Clean Water Action, which works on water quality issues in the US.
Think you have a cute design for a bottle - send it in to Love Bottle and you just might get a few of your designed bottles plus $100 credit to spend at the store. You can also design Love Bottles for your company or event (note: you need 2-3 months for production).
Bottles sell for $12-$18 USD. :Love Bottle::Daily Candy San Francisco
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Note: LoveBottle just found out that their bottles are actually made from 20% recycled glass, not 100% recycled glass as originally planned on. While they are looking at increasing this percentage in the future, we're sorry for the confusion on the current stock.
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A special what?
Just buy a bottle of Grolsch beer and use that bottle. Bonus! You get some beer!
Didn't they say something about this in "What the bleep do we know?," what with what's written on a bottle of water changing the arrangement of the molecules?
Seems to odd for me to believe. I'll stick with my old-fashioned plastic water bottle. It's lighter and it won't break. However, if it takes something this stylish to get them to start drinking tap water rather than Fiji, power to this company. Just because it's expensive and yuppie-ish doesn't mean it can't be green.
If you buy a Grolsch bottle and then fill it with water later, people will think you are drinking a beer and while that would be fine while you're in your own home, it might get a bit tricky in public. lol
If a company is stupid enough to think that writing a word on a bottle will alter the contents, then I don't think I'd want them having my money...
Just get a bottle of something with a screw top and use that. BAM!
Wow, 15 bucks for 1 bottle! That would buy a lot of Grolsch bottles. If you really wanted, you could probably go to a home brew supply store and get the same thing in a case without the beer in them for cheaper.
I started using smaller glass bottles for my water bottle a while ago - and it's FREE! I just fill up before I leave the house. However, I do support any company using glass bottles since it is the most recyclable item to use (100%).
Using plastic is ignorant and stagnant. With all the different options around, there's no excuse to not try to improve personal shopping habits. A plastic bottle is used for MINUTES, only to survive in the environment FOREVER. Let's not even get into the fact that the water out of our tap is usually much better than anything in a bottle (it's not regulated as our tap is).
This is a great idea! Anything to get rid of disposable plastic bottles! People are becoming more aware and this is another example.
Thanks
This is a great idea! Anything to get rid of disposable plastic bottles! People are becoming more aware and this is another example.
Thanks
I just bought a used military canteen for camping (and the cups/case it comes in double as small cooking pots), and I've also started to use it as my regular water bottle. Sometimes it gets a funny look from people, but it's better than cancer.
Oh wow, more stuff to buy. You can re-use a bottle for free. I have a Voss water bottle I've filled 3x daily for two years. Although I replaced the plastic lid with a cork to one-up my eco-buddies. Another fun water bottle is an empty booze bottle. Take one to work and drink your water from it!
Solid marketing. The "Love Bottle". You've just alienated almost 50% of your potential market. $12-$18 for an empty bottle you could get for ten cents? You've just alienated the other 50%
Hocus Pocus yes.
Cute but I'll break them. I'm bad w/glass.
I'll stick with my Kleen Kanteen.
If I really wanted glass I would reuse a Lipton bottle or something.
Only a few people saw past the "new toy" aspect of this and saw the product's biggest issue: it's glass and will break. Others are lauding it because it's not plastic and therefore more "green". Plastic bottles don't break and if you reuse the same one over and over (like a fellow Anon does), you're saving more resources than buying a glass bottle and keeping another plastic bottle out of the landfill. One plastic bottle of water can only be a few dollars and last for a very long time if reused, these can only be used until they break and you plunk down another $12.
Other commenters are just going to hate on plastic because most people waste it, commenters on this site are eco-minded and are less likely to do so, so saying it's 'evil' is just preaching to the wrong choir. I'd take a plastic bottle over one that can shatter and implant shards of glass in my body or someone else's.
As Maria commented, I'll stick with my Klean Kanteen. It's ultimately recyclable and does *not* break. Win-win over plastic and this bottle you'll have to replace.
Finally! Some genius has invented A PORTABLE BOTTLE! We truly live in an age of wonders. What next? A machine that flies through the air like a giant iron bird?!
Christ, white people will buy into anything these days. So long as it's "cuter".
plastic hate bottles = free. Light, redily available, break proof and no direct evidence of health problems in adults. But, I will buy Grolshc glass too...just cause they're nifty.
100% recyclable is important after the product can no longer be used for its intended purpose. Why not use stainless steel? Now you have a bottle that can last decades and won't break when you drop it. And you will drop it.
Of course, the stainless steel bottle in much less helpful if a streetfight breaks out.
for those who don't understand how something printed on a water bottle can make a difference in the quality of the water(all else being equal), please look at the books by Emoto 'The Message from Water'. All research and photos documanted here.