Tag: Bottled Water
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US Bottled Water Sales Hit New Record High in 2011
How did buying individual portions of water in plastic bottles become an acceptable alternative to clean and available public tap water?
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Reusable Water Bottle Tracks How Much Plastic You Keep Out of the Trash
A reusable water bottle lets you count how many times you refill it, so you know how much plastic you've saved.
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Saguaro National Park Says No to Bottled Water AND Soda Sales
"If parks in some of the hottest, driest areas of the nation can take this step without fear of losing visitors to either disenchantment or dehydration, what’s stopping all the others?"
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Personal Water Filter Bottle Helps Fund Fight Against Global Water Crisis
A new refillable water filter bottle helps you not only fight against plastic bottle waste, but also helps to fund sustainable water projects.
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Ask Pablo: Are Soda Makers Really Greener?
Dear Pablo: I have been seeing a lot of advertisements claiming that soda makers are better for the environment. Are these claims really true?
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Grand Canyon Reconsidering Plastic Water Bottle Ban, Could Be Implemented By Springtime
About a month since the Grand Canyon abandoned a plastic bottled water ban in the park after hearing from Coca Cola, the plan is back on.
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Nestle Admits to Marketing Bottled Water to Minority Communities
Bottled water companies are found intentionally pushing their product in minority communities.
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Join Author Peter Gleick for a Discussion of Our Obsession With Bottled Water
Author Peter Gleick joins TreeHugger for a live chat about the story behind bottled water and what it means for our culture and environment.
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Bottled & Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession With Bottled Water (Book Review)
Dr. Peter Gleick uncovers the complex truth to the bottled water industry, and makes a strong case for being realistic about our addiction.
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The HydraDuo Water Bottle Stores Two Beverages So You Don’t Have to Choose
The HydraDuo water bottle keeps two beverages in the same container so you have options while on the go.
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Grand Canyon Abandons Bottled Water Ban, After Meetings With Coca-Cola
The Grand Canyon was on track to ban bottled water sales in the park until Coca Cola registered its 'concerns' about the ban.
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Why is Water from a Garden Hose so Delicious?
I posed this (age-old?) question on Twitter and Facebook today. To which one of my Environmental Studies colleagues replied, "the hose gives it taste." Ah, yes, the taste of childhood, of a hot summer day and cooling off
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Removing Arsenic From Water With...Plastic Bottles and Nutrition Supplements?!
When we think of plastic bottles, we usually think of them as a serious problem tied up with our drinking water, not a possible solution for cleaning water for 100 million people. But researchers have found that by
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Coca Cola and Nestle Show Signs of Support for Improved Recycling Laws (Updated)
Of the 224 billion beverage containers sold in the U.S. every year, only about 29 percent are recycled. Companies have been blamed in the past for not doing more to increase that rate—but that may now be changing,
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ROCK REUSE RECYCLE at Rock-A-Field Festival
Last weekend I experienced what was for me the greenest music festival so far. And not only because at Rock-A-Field in Luxembourg you actually get to rock a lush green field surrounded by dense forest. The organisers of RAF also set an example of how
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Confusion Reigns Over Plant-Based Bottles, Which Is Exactly What Coke And Pepsi Want
Amy Westervelt of Slate tries to get to the bottom of Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles, concluding that they "still damaged the environment." But she also caused some confusion and had a few mistakes, some of which have been corrected. She
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Why Recycling Plastic Bottles Doesn't Help The Problem (Video)
Plastic bottles always suck, even if they're being recycled. That's because the energy it takes to recycle them is mind-boggling. It's no simple task to melt down all those bottles, and the plastic is usually
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Spin the Water Bottle (Cartoon)
"Spin the Water Bottle" by Option-G This the latest in a series of daily cartoons on TreeHugger, exploring a variety of green themes and ideas through visual
