Tag: Bottled Water - Page 2
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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
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Crowd-sourced Drinking Fountain App Coming to Android Phones
A new project between Google and the Pacific Institute will help you find public drinking fountains in a jiff using your smart phone. The duo is building a new app for Android-powered phones that crowd-sources the locations of
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Ask Pablo: What Is In Our Bottled Water?
Image Source: Woody Thrower Dear Pablo: I know that bottled water is bad for the environment but what about us? What is in our bottled water? Full Disclosure: The Environmental Working Group report referenced in this article discusses major bottled
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Will Congress Stop Spending $860,000 Annually on Bottled Water?
According to Corporate Accountability International, the House of Representatives spends at least $860,000 on bottled water a year. That's almost $2,000 for each representative.
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Singapore Bottling Wastewater To Battle Water Scarcity
Bottled water is not a very green thing to do. But is it slightly better if you're foregoing funneling remote mountain springs into plastic containers, and bottling recycled wastewater instead?
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Fiji Water Faces Class Action Lawsuit for Greenwashing
Fiji, probably the least favorite in an already disliked industry, is the target of a class action lawsuit alleging the company has profited from greenwashing. Specifically, from greenwashing claims that its products are
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Fiji Water Shutting Down Bottling Plant in Fiji... Not.
Yesterday, Fiji Water, one of the iconic brands of bottled water, made rumblings of shutting down their Fiji-based bottling plant after the government announced a plan to bump up the business tax on
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Nestle vs. Oregon: Battle Heats Up Over Columbia River Gorge
Nestle, the world's top-selling bottled water company, has been trying to win the right to tap between 100 and 166 million gallons of water from Oregon's Columbia River Gorge annually, and wants to justify it as environmentally sound by simply
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NYC Water So Good, Battle to Replicate It Breaks Out in Florida
Why New Yorkers continue to drink bottled water is a mystery. Its quality has been praised all over the place, but that praise has just reached new heights: restaurants in Florida dueling over technology to replicate it.
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8 Facts You Didn't Know About Water
Today is a huge day for bloggers and activists around the world: it's Blog Action Day. For those of you that aren't familiar with the event, Blog Action
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In Paris and Milan, Sparkling Water Flows For Free
Here's a novel way to get city dwellers off the bottle - the bottled water, that is. Local water utility Eau de Paris has constructed a public fountain in the Reuilly Gardens that has chilled and sparkling water coming from
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David de Rothschild on Crossing the Pacific in the Plastiki (Podcast)
To shed light on the plight of our plastic-laden oceans, David de Rothschild built a sailboat from 12,000 soda bottles and took it clear across the Pacific. With TreeHugger-founder Graham Hill as a crew member, the Plastiki charted a death-defying
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Ask Pablo: Is Boxed Water Really Better?
In past articles I have shown that boxed
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2 Billion Pencils* and A School Supply Quandary
Last year at around the start of school, I just said no to new school supplies. We went through our house and found 90% of the supplies we needed (the pencils we gathered were a combination of unused and stubs we
