Take Filtered Water With You
by Kristin Underwood, Sacramento, CA 
on 11.17.08
Image source: End Bottled Water.com
Okay so you've gotten over the bottled water hump, purchased your own canteen of sorts and now you merrily take water with you wherever you go. You can use a Brita or Pur filter at home when you leave in the morning, but what do you do once you get to the office and need to refill? Do you trust the water fountain or cafeteria sink? Not to worry, Wellness H2.0 is here.
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Update to article:
Wellness does recycle used filters at their organic turf farm.
More on Wellness H2.0 after the jump
The End Bottled Water campaign, organized by Wellness Enterprises LLC, now offers a water bottle with filter in the cap to eliminate toxins and chemicals from your drinking water. Each bottle is only 7 ounces with the filter, thus not making the bottle unwieldy and it comes with a strap for carrying.
The bottle itself is made out of recycled plastic and includes a filtration system in the lid that eliminates 99% of toxins. The filter is designed to remove chlorine, chloramines, silt, sand, lead, sediment, industrial volatile organic compounds, tastes, and odors. The filter also includes Japanese volcanic stones which are supposed to aid in the absorption of water, reduce free radicals and balance the pH in the water.
The Wellness Water Bottle retails for $49.95 and the replacement filter retails for $20. You can purchase them online at End Bottled Water. While this is costly, using one of these bottles instead of regular bottled water is estimated to keep 1,100 plastic bottles out of the waste stream.:End Bottled Water
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I like the idea, and even though it's recycled plastic, it would still be better if it was stainless steel.
It's pointless without the ability to recycle the filters. It just more plastic waste in the landfil. Brita doesn't even recycle normal filters in the US.They've been doing it in Eurpe for years, but they claim we don't posess the technogy for our more advanced filters here (BS).
I think this is a great idea...BUT IT IS SO EXPENSIVE!
I would not be willing to pay $49.95 for a waterbottle. Maybe because filtered water is so accessible for me.
It wouldn't make any sense if the filters weren't recycleable. It sort of defeats the purpose, since plastic bottles are atleast recycle-able.
I do like how there is a trend of making things from recycled material. This is the second beverage container product that I have come across that is made of recycled material (the other being the Aladdin Sustain Tumbler). It is a great concept and I'm hoping it sticks around!
Does anybody know if this waterbottle is BPA free?
I think this is a great idea...BUT IT IS SO EXPENSIVE!
I would not be willing to pay $49.95 for a waterbottle. Maybe because filtered water is so accessible for me.
It wouldn't make any sense if the filters weren't recycleable. It sort of defeats the purpose, since plastic bottles are atleast recycle-able.
I do like how there is a trend of making things from recycled material. This is the second beverage container product that I have come across that is made of recycled material (the other being the Aladdin Sustain Tumbler). It is a great concept and I'm hoping it sticks around!
Does anybody know if this waterbottle is BPA free?
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Thanks for the question. I checked with the company about BPA and here is their response:
"The Wellness H2.0 bottle is made from non-toxic plastic that does not leech harmful chemicals like BPA.
I have the older version of this. It works great. To recycle the filter, since it's made of what looks like charcoal, surrounding a plastic tube...just break the charcoal off, and recycle the plastic tube. Pretty easy if you can swing a hammer.
7 oz? I'd be making trips to the faucet all day.
I drink more than many folks, apparently .. at least 96 oz per day .. usually more.
My quart-size canning jar serves me quite nicely thanks. .. and I'm tough enough to take tap water.
At that price, I think I would just bring a Brita pitcher with me to filter water at work!
Here in Sweden every single plastic bottle sold from cola to evian, small to large, has an extra charge included in the price of the drink 1 to 2 krona depending on size. When the drink has been consumed nobody throws the bottle in the trash. Every supermarket has a recycling station, you simply feed your empty bottle into the machine and vips you get the extra charge you paided for when you bought the drink back in cash.
I hope that something like this, (if cheaper and more recyclable, obviously), could do some serious damage to the bottled water industry, but I think that the people who are likely to carry a water bottle like this around are people who would carry something like a nalgene or a stainless steel bottle around now, and they probably don't drink bottled water anyway. It will take some work, maybe in the form of PSAs or whatever, to get new people to lug around a bottle with a filter in it and shun their bottled water habit.
Nice looking bottle. For those of you who don't need the water filtering option I wanted to tell you about the BPA free water bottle that Aladdin came out with. It's slim enough to fit in car cup holders as well as bike racks. Also, it's only $11.99. You can check out these bottles at
http://www.aladdin-pmi.com/shop/category.aspx?categoryID=15
"The filter also includes Japanese volcanic stones which are supposed to aid in the absorption of water, reduce free radicals and balance the pH in the water."
The reason it is 50 bucks...it's not just a water bottle. From what I have read, it actually works too.