Plastic Water Bottles / Bottled Water

[mwgdrwg]

Bottled water - what are your thoughts?

I think of it as a wasteful expensive scam, and now they say there are small bits of plastic in the water!

If I'm at home I use a glass, but carry a re-usable BPA free plastic bottle when I'm out and about - are these ok, are some better than others? How do you hydrate yourself?

 

[sunnysidedown]

How do you hydrate yourself?

there's plenty of water in beer.

 

[mwgdrwg]

there's plenty of water in beer.

Hope you're getting the required 2 litres per day!

 

[Pickman's model]

Hope you're getting the required 2 litres per day!

Do you really need to drink eight cups of water a day?
FACT CHECK: Eight Glasses of Water Per Day?
There’s No Evidence That We Need to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day

 

[mwgdrwg]

Do you really need to drink eight cups of water a day?
FACT CHECK: Eight Glasses of Water Per Day?
There’s No Evidence That We Need to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day

I was making a joke about drinking lots of beer.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was making a joke about drinking lots of beer.

i thought you were either a) referring to the discredited claim about the water, or b) calling sunnysidedown a lightweight, being as 4 pints a day's not so much.

i preferred to opt for a).

 

[Sprocket.]

I use an aluminium Sig bottle for water at work and leisure if away from home.
Top it up at work from the filtered chiller.

It’s strange to hear that all these fancy, drawn from the volcanic/limestone/aquifers, that are thousands of years old have plastic in them. Two solutions spring to mind,(no pun intended)
1. All bottled water is from a tap!
B. All bottled water is polluted with the mess we and the lizard people left here last time we were here!

 

[Thimble Queen]

I drink a lot of fizzy water that comes in both glass and plastic bottles. I pay a deposit for my bottles and return them for resuse/recycling when I'm done. The cheapest own brand supermarket fizzy water is 19c for 2 liters.

 

[Badgers]

Might be useful

Get the Refill App - Refill • Water refill points on every street.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I use an aluminium Sig bottle for water at work and leisure if away from home.
Top it up at work from the filtered chiller.

It’s strange to hear that all these fancy, drawn from the volcanic/limestone/aquifers, that are thousands of years old have plastic in them. Two solutions spring to mind,(no pun intended)
1. All bottled water is from a tap!
B. All bottled water is polluted with the mess we and the lizard people left here last time we were here!

It's probably from the manufacture of the bottles and lids, small bits breaking off the edge of the opening etc.

 

[Sprocket.]

It's probably from the manufacture of the bottles and lids, small bits breaking off the edge of the opening etc.

I thought it was the micro particles that was concerning the health professionals.
It does appear that it is mostly in the developing world from what I have heard.

 

[mwgdrwg]

I thought it was the micro particles that was concerning the health professionals.
It does appear that it is mostly in the developing world from what I have heard.

"The researchers suspect that the presence of plastic is largely due to the plastic bottles, but is also a by-product of the bottling process....But the researchers estimate that the microplastic contamination in bottles is double that of tap water."

Water in Plastic Bottles Is Likely Contaminated. With Plastic.

I dunno. Still, there's plenty of other reasons not to buy plastic bottles of water.

 

[mwgdrwg]

Might be useful

Get the Refill App - Refill • Water refill points on every street.

This is brilliant, thanks. I just loaded it and found out there's a few refill points near me, including all Costa Coffes.

 

[stavros]

Might be useful

Get the Refill App - Refill • Water refill points on every street.

I may be wrong. However, I believe all licenced premises have a legal obligation to supply tap water. They ought to fill up your own bottles, I'd have thought, within reason in terms of scale.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Similar of course to water that has filtered through a mountain for thousands of years having a best before date. They know the plastics break down.

I try and avoid buying it, but sometimes do if I'm caught short. Normally have a few Go Outdoors Nalagen copies in the car.

Never understood the fuss when it was revealed the Coke's attempt at bottled water water was just filtered tap water, especially if nobody had noticed before.

 

[spanglechick]

I quite often find myself wondering how I managed as a kid, where I might have probably only a single drink with lunch and maybe a carton or can on the way home.

These days my mouth properly gums up and I can't talk clearly if I don't drink at least a litre over a working day - double that if it's warm.

 

[Thimble Queen]

Similar of course to water that has filtered through a mountain for thousands of years having a best before date. They know the plastics break down.

I try and avoid buying it, but sometimes do if I'm caught short. Normally have a few Go Outdoors Nalagen copies in the car.

Never understood the fuss when it was revealed the Coke's attempt at bottled water water was just filtered tap water, especially if nobody had noticed before.

That was straight out of an episode of Only Fools and Horses. Peckham tap lol.

 

[teqniq]

One more reason to boycott Nestle as if any more were needed.

 

[kalidarkone]

I use one of these: the charcoal lasts 3 months and then can be boiled for 10 mins to get a further 3 months out of it. It filters tap water.