Water is great
They don't actually produce the bottles. They buy them from another manufacturer and just fill them with water.
You're mostly paying for the cost of the bottle plus artificial markups for your water. A Brita filter for tap water is much more cost effective for the consumer assuming their tap water is safe.
A Brita filter for tap water is much more cost effective for the consumer assuming their tap water is safe.
Here (the Netherlands) tap water is much, much cleaner than bottled water. It’s subject to much stricter regulations than bottled water. If the stuff in bottled water would come out of your tap then the water company would be in big trouble.
Water landlords smh. Or maybe waterlords?
Waterlords sounds too cool of a title, I think water suckers is better.
Is more the distribution costs.
And honestly any plastic bottled drink is just as bad. They just add some sugar and flavouring so it's even worse for you.
The two major companies blue triton and niagra do have their bottles made in house. They use plastic resin in a preform machine that then goes to a blowmolding machine to form the bottles then its filled right after. Blue triton is the investment group that bought out nestle waters north America back in 2021
Turns out, plastic bottles put plastic into your system.
I really hate these headlines. "100 times more!!! Will somebody think of the children!!!"
A better headline would express if this is actually concerning or not for our health. 100 times more than an insignificant quantity can still be an insignificant quantity.
Let's put it this way: it's infinitely more plastic than would be in your body under natural circumstances.
They want you to accept your role in a capitalist society. There's no need for numerous public water fountains if you can pay for water, and since you're not paying for the premium glass bottles, you should accept some microplastics.
Or, society could actually provide a lot of public fountains, but that might mean taxing the richest to the point where they only have enough money for a hundred lifetimes, instead of a thousand lifetimes.
I mean bottled water even tastes like plastic so it should be no surprise to anyone.
I hate water companies as much as the next guy, but processing water can be really expensive and would be disastrous for a company to do poorly. This take is like saying "you know fence companies don't produce iron, right?" No, but it takes money to make the iron into a fence, just like it takes money to make water potable.
That said, water companies can still go eat a dick. Idk how ethical smaller companies like liquid death are, but I just refill a reusable bottle when at all possible. I will go thirsty out of spite if the only water available is Nestlé. There is a lot more to complain about than saying they "don't produce anything."
What company that sells bottled water processes it themselves? The two types I know are syphoning it from a spring and those (at least where I'm from) are not allowed to process it and still call it "from spring XYZ"... and those who just fill up tap water somewhere where it can pass as mineral water and then transport it over the globe.
“You know what would make water better? A small container with a shitload of microplastics!“
Filtration gang for life
Disposable plastic should be illegal. It's cheap, but only because of all the externalized costs.
In Finland 93% of plastic, glass and aluminium drink containers are returned back to the store and recycled into new ones.
Or they should be made so expensive that they only make sense when there really is no alternative.
They don't technically produce the water, but they are probably the ones filtering it and stuff
Pretty sure they don’t claim that they “produce water”.
It's worse than that. They consume the bottles, and then resell the bottles filled with something that is supposedly a human right, for profit.
When they first started showing up at gas stations I thought it was so absurd. That day I learned if it exists in a retail store someone will buy it.
Funny how things change. 30 years ago drinking bottled water was considered snobby
I remember when it first started gaining popularity, and there were plenty of naysayers that couldn't believe people would pay for water. What I really can't believe is that people pay up to $10 for a bottle of water if the bottle is fancy enough.
It's still largely considered insane in most parts of the world.
Footage of a factory making water: https://morbotron.com/video/S02E04/RxE9v_-DQOv1qB0xfB7t76FxHFk=.gif
Checkmate.
Who are those horrible orange creatures over there?
Oompa Lumpas.
Tell them I hate them!
Bingo!!!
I'm not filling up my Stanley in a gas station bathroom.
Feels bad man
I've done this multiple times where I live and the water was as great as anywhere else
I mean, it's literally in the name
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