Radical green idea of the day
This is an easy, yet radical, idea that we've tried to alarmingly successful degrees in our house. We've stopped buying bottled water - now isn't that amazing? We've singularly managed to halve the amount of plastic we throw away each week in one fell swoop.
Having realised that our building here in Tokyo is about 10 years old and its water pipes provide water that is reasonable to taste (OK, it's not Evian but it didn't have to come 12,000 km to get here) and has passed a hell of a lot more tests than any mineral water in the world, we have gone plastic water bottle free. And it feels good, it saves us money, it saves having to cart the stuff home, it saves us making dumb comments like, shit, we're out of water! And it's a beautiful resource that lies untapped in so many homes that it pains me to think of the hundreds of bottles of plastic we've helped to produce. Maybe your place is old and the pipes are rusting and the water tastes like crap - well, how about asking the water company to do something about it? It might not cost you much, and you would be doing your bit.
Fifty years from now, people will not have unlimited supplies of this amazing clean stuff that comes out of taps for as long as you want it to, so we should appreciate it, and use what we have, enjoy it fully. Tap water is beautiful, so try it.
Having realised that our building here in Tokyo is about 10 years old and its water pipes provide water that is reasonable to taste (OK, it's not Evian but it didn't have to come 12,000 km to get here) and has passed a hell of a lot more tests than any mineral water in the world, we have gone plastic water bottle free. And it feels good, it saves us money, it saves having to cart the stuff home, it saves us making dumb comments like, shit, we're out of water! And it's a beautiful resource that lies untapped in so many homes that it pains me to think of the hundreds of bottles of plastic we've helped to produce. Maybe your place is old and the pipes are rusting and the water tastes like crap - well, how about asking the water company to do something about it? It might not cost you much, and you would be doing your bit.
Fifty years from now, people will not have unlimited supplies of this amazing clean stuff that comes out of taps for as long as you want it to, so we should appreciate it, and use what we have, enjoy it fully. Tap water is beautiful, so try it.
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