Plastic Water Bottles

Top 20 DIY Tips To Reuse Plastic Bottles

Posted 01.24.2012

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From Networx' Sayward Rebhal: Plastic grocery bags and plastic water bottles -- those disposable environmental nightmares -- have become iconic in ...

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Vermont Employees Fight To Keep Their Water Coolers, Against Environmental Initiative

AP | JOHN CURRAN | Posted 09.23.2011

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MONTPELIER, Vt. — At the state maintenance garage where Lori Girard-Pion works, the water cooler isn't a luxury. It's a necessity, especially fo...

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In Preservation Effort, Italy Bans Plastic Water Bottles Along Heritage Coastline

Telegraph | Nick Squires in Rome | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hikers and tourists visiting one of Italy's most scenic stretches of coastline have been banned from carrying plastic bottles of water amid fears that...

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What is EVIAN Spelled Backward? Don't Be That Person. Get a Bobble

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's the craziest thing about bottled water: 25% to 40% comes from a public tap. If you're going to pay for tap water, why not start with tap water and filter it yourself? That is the light bulb idea behind Bobble Water Bottles.

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Our Environment, Our Health and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (AUDIO)

Kathleen Slattery-Moschkau | Posted 11.17.2011

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Yes, the BP situation is horrific. But is it much different than each of us killing the ocean, the animals, and our own bodies a little bit every day?

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Earth Day: Cool Alternatives to Bottled Water

Jill Donenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans buy more than $22 billion worth of plastic water bottles every year--that's more than 70 million bottles consumed daily. And worse, only 17 percent of those are recycled.

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"Refuse" Should Be Added To Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Refuse | Posted 05.25.2011

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The problem is simply too massive to be promoting a gradual reduction in single-use disposable plastics. Every 5 minutes, 2 million plastic bottles ar...

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Water Bottle Deposits To Start This Fall In NY

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011

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ALBANY, N.Y. — Mandatory deposits on water bottles are expected to start this fall in New York, while the Paterson administration considers chan...

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Desperate Bottled Water Industry Battles Trend Toward Tap (VIDEO)

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

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As concerns mount over bottled water's impacts on the environment and human health, bottled water sales are beginning to dry up.

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The BPA Diaries: An Introduction

John DeCock | Posted 05.25.2011

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BPA is a symbol of a much broader problem--our need to evaluate chemicals before they reach the marketplace, and to develop safer alternatives to chemicals we already know to be toxic.

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From Pink Ribbons to a Right to Know Law

Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.17.2011

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I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer.

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