Monday, June 30, 2008
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Recycle your water filters
ATTN: Brita filter users
Sorry it's only Brita at this time, but there is a campaign to once again bring the U.S. up to par with Europe, and make these filters recycleable, refillable, and reuseable. Either send them in to
Take Back The Filter
5245 College Avenue, Box #815
Oakland, CA 94618
or sign the online petition at: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/recycle-used-brita-water-filter-cartridges.html
or both!
In a world where consumption outweighs raw resources, every little bit you can do will help. Signing is simple; shipping is only a little bit more difficult. And the return value makes it well worth it!
-- Ravenna Romack
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Comments (13)
I drink bottled water because tap water scares the heck out of me.
@fullmetalbunny - You create so much waste that way. Get yourself a nice reuseable hiker's bottle, and a carbon filtration system like me -- that's all they do for your bottled water anyway! Then you have the cleanest possible water and the least amount of waste. Your carbon footprint will be, like, bird-sized.
We wouldn't even have to worry about filters or bottles or anything if the tap water were just clean... even reasonably so. Even when I was a kid it was cleaner than it is now.
@fullmetalbunny - It's funny. Over the summer of our senior year, my roomie interned at a environmental consulting firm. One of the cases he helped with was of our home town. Someone was suing over contaminents in the city's water supplies.
It was scary since we've heard none of it in the press.
@RaVnR - I reuse plastic water bottles. =) Though, it's more out of cost-conscience than environmental-conscienceness.
Ideally, there would be more policies past to regulate this sort of thing. If it's in law, thenindustry would have no choice but to abide to environmentalism. Then us, as consumers, have less chance in being evnrionmentally unfriendly.
@huginn - I'm reading about that right now and will be doing even more so as Fall semester goes through, since I'm finally starting some of my Enviro Law classes.... but regulation isn't just about big companies. We all have to pull our weight, right FMB? *glares*
@RaVnR - What's FMB?
@huginn - fullmetalbunny
@huginn - don't reuse plastic water bottles, the materials in the plastic break down and enter your body, yuck! If you want to reuse a water bottle make sure that it is made out of plastics #6 or #7, those don't break down.
thanks for letting me know about this, i had never thought about the filters not being recyclable!
@lesannejenk - yes I know even Nalgene breaks down but there's some new stuff ( can't remember what it's called ) that doesn't... cancer = bad.
@RaVnR - i agree, cancer does = bad!
@lesannejenk - Thanks for the advice. It'd suck to die of a busted liver.