Tag: Bottled Water - Page 7
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Is Boxed Water a Solution to Bottled Water?
We probably have more posts on the subject of the evils of bottled water than any other. Then along comes water in a box and Jaymi says "they're right in their tagline - boxed water is better for the earth...but it's still not good for it." Others
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SIGG Introduces New EcoCare Liner
Dubbed the EcoCare Liner, the new
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Is Boxed Water a Solution to Bottled Water?
Might boxed water be a solution to bottled water for those who refuse to give up buying disposable containers of water? Boxed Water designer Benjamin Edgar thinks so.The Boxed Water container is made from responsibly
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Bottled Water Launches Latest Eco-Friendly Packaging
Just when you thought it was time for bottled water to fizzle out, a slew of "new and improved" waters continue to hit the market, laced with
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Florida to Charge Bottled Water Companies by the Gallon
Every day, 500,000 gallons get sucked up from a limestone basin in northern Florida by the Nestle Water Co. Every hour of each of those days, the water fills 102,000 plastic bottles at a nearby bottling plant. Nestle, and the 22 other
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TAP'dNY Bottles & Sells New York City Tap Water, In New York
The bottled water company TAP'dNY is bottling New York tap water for sale in New York. From their website: "We offer an honest and local alternative to thirsty New Yorkers, giving them a smarter choice: to drink their own (award
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Good Magazine on Drugs in Your Drink: Don't Let It Drive You To the Bottle
Good Magazine looks at the issue of drugs in your drinking water, with one of their trademark wonderful graphics. It is a well from which TreeHugger has drunk deep, but always with a worry: that people might become afraid of tap water and switch to
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Un-Treehugger: HydraCoach Intelligent Water Bottle
We are all for people making a habit of drinking from reusable water containers. And there are a lot of great options out there to choose from. But there is a point at which a simple water container can be as lame as plastic water
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Think Bottled Water is Bad, Could Bottled Orange Juice Be Even Worse?
You’d have to have been living under a rock for the past year, or perhaps exhibiting some willful ignorance, to have missed all the discussion about the environmental problems with the global bottled water industry. Here on TreeHugger, just last week,
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You've Got to Be Kidding: Organically-Certified 5,000-Year-Old Bottled Water
In the battle of the bottle versus the tap, tap water clearly wins out as a more environmentally-friendly (and cheaper) choice. Thus it's a little hard to know what to do with this new organically-certified bottled water by Swedish company Malmberg. On
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VitaminWater Sued Over Lack of Health Benefits
Coca-Cola, the maker of VitaminWater, is being sued by the Center for Science in the Public Interest over alleged deceptive marketing practices. Those practices include using buzzwords like "definitely au naturel" and
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French Press-Style Filter Concept for Water on the Go
There are a few products out there already that filter water in the bottle so you can have clean water while on the go, without any bulky filters.
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Dumb and Dumber: Freakonomics on Bottled Water Bans
In her book Bottlemania, Elizabeth Royte quoted a Pepsico marketing VP in 2000 talking about water: "when we are done, tap water will be relegated to showers and washing dishes." About four years later, universities started looking at banning bottled
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Award Winning Carafe is for Tap Water
This carafe is called the "Tap Top" and it is the winner of a competition to design a container to serve drinking water at London restaurants. As they say: "Tap Top is tip top for London's tap water." Won by industrial
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Top Beverage Companies Receive Mediocre, Failing Grades for Recycling Efforts
When you think of success in any endeavor the simple truth is that a grade of "C" is rarely considered top-notch. Mediocre is perhaps more like it, but that's just what Coca-Cola, called the top U.S. beverage
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part Two)
Despite his own confessions, Pearce isn't here to preach. He'd rather people make up their own minds about what to buy and what to snub. In the second part of our interview, the author of Confessions of an Eco-Sinner tells more tales from his
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Un-TreeHugger: Twist & Spout
Plasticrap alert. Most of us are making an effort to remove plastic bottles from our lives. And we certainly don’t want anything around us that encourages their use. But that seems to be exactly what this greenwashed oddity is
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The TH Interview: Fred Pearce--Confessions of An Eco-Sinner (Part One)
Ever get curious? "Where was my computer put together, who picked my coffee beans, what about the gold in my wedding ring?" We recall when Fred Pearce set out to find the answers, a journey that took him around the world seven times. Confessions of An
