Ethical ‘One Water’ bottled water is still bad for the planet
In the past couple of weeks, a company has started selling ‘ethical bottled water’ in Australia. It’s being stocked in major supermarkets and the ‘ethical’ tag is coming from the fact that all the profits are being donated to developing childrens playground that double as water pumps to communities in Africa in desperate need of fresh water.
While I applaud the effort, bottled water is bad for the environment, no matter what pretty little ribbon you wrap around it. It takes 10 litres of water (plus oils and other petro-chemicals) to produce a bottle capable of holding 1 litre of water. This bottle then needs to be transported around, using petrol and emitting greenhouse gases that are ruining our planet and making our air hard to breathe.
Whether you put an ‘ethical’ sticker on it, a pink ribbon or put it in a nice box, a dog turd is still a dog turd, and bottled water is still bottled water. It’s expensive & bad for the planet. The kids in Africa can still get their water pumps & playgounds. Here’s what you do.
- Buy yourself a reusable water bottle. Whether it’s a BPA Free plastic drink bottle, a stainless steel bottle, an aluminium one, a cheap dodgy squeezy one you paid $2 for, it really doesn’t matter.
- If you want to, get yourself a really good water filter, or even an ordinary one to improve the taste of your drinking water.
- Figure out how much money you saved by not getting sucked in to the bottled water industry.
- Donate this money to a worthy program like World Vision’s ‘Water + Health = Life’.
Shop Naturally donate approx. 3% of all profits to worthy charities, including the one mentioned above. Every time you buy a drink bottle from Shop Naturally, you’re helping children & adults in Africa get access to clean drinking water without sucking the life out of the planet at the same time. While we give an automatic monthly donation, you can give one-off donations. Click here for further info about World Vision’s ‘Water + Health = Life’ program.
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