An Eco Friendly Water Bottle Is Your Friend Too
If you're shopping for an eco friendly water bottle, you might also consider a home purifier. Members of environmental groups around the country are making a conscious effort to drink more tap-water and buy less bottled, but the quality of our tap water is just not that good.
While there is no doubt that it is as good as what you find in most bottles that are for sale in the supermarket, it is still not as clean or good tasting as it could be. Most treatment facilities use chlorine or other chemical disinfectants, which are bad tasting and actually dehydrating. But, that's not the worst part.
The use of any kind of disinfectant creates byproducts. Known as THMs or DBPs, exposure to those byproducts increases our risk of cancer. Only a few of the home purifiers on the market remove THMs.
You can check by reading the product performance data for the purifier that you are about to buy. If you've already bought a purifier, you can call the manufacturer and ask about THM reduction. You can also request that they send you a copy of their certified product performance data. If they don't have it, you might want to consider buying a different brand.
You have no doubt seen that some bottling companies claim to have switched to an eco friendly water bottle. There is no such thing.
There are bottles that are lighter in weight and composed of less plastic. So, they create less of a burden on the environment than the regular sized bottles, but they still create a burden. All plastics do.
The only truly eco friendly water bottle is one that is made out of glass. It is reusable and dishwasher safe. The glass does not absorb odors and noxious gases cannot pass through it. If you stored a plastic container filled with water in the garage next to a can of gasoline, in a very short period of time, the water would taste and smell like the gasoline. To drink it would make you ill.
People think that plastic is safer to carry around than glass, but there are shatter resistant drinking containers. There are also cushioned carryalls that help protect them even further.
The price of an eco friendly water bottle made of glass is no more than some plastics. In fact, some purifier manufacturers give you a free one with every purchase. Now, that's a green deal.
About the Author:
Bob Goodhand is an advocate for home and personal water purification systems to protect and promote healthy living. Visit his site at http://natural-purified-water.com/ to discover the drinking water filters that Bob recommends.