Cycle shop owner from Wales gets bottled water banned down under

[Crankarm]

Why would you need to buy bottled water for the bottle? Don't you have cycling bottles???

I think they should be banned simply for the mess the owners of them create in dumping them where ever they take their last sip. I would ban ALL small bottled drinks, small crisp packets and carriers bags. There's enough rubbish lying around ruining paths, woodlands and littering road side verges of which a large proportion is empty bottles, crisp bags and sweet wrappers. Around the schools the problem is acute.

Or alternatively slap a 2p recycling refund as R Whites had on glass bottles years ago .

 

[Dan B]

Why would you need to buy bottled water for the bottle? Don't you have cycling bottles???

I do, but I'm obviously buying the wrong ones because they never seem to be self-filling

 

[Arch]

Why would you need to buy bottled water for the bottle? Don't you have cycling bottles???

Yes, but they are bulkier - a small Buxton bottle fits better in a bag.

Needless to say, I'd never chuck a bottle away as litter. I reuse them, or put them in the bin. Banning crisp packets becuase some people are slobs is just stupid. How are you going to sell crisps? Pick and mix?

 

[Black Sheep]

The point that at least I was trying to make is that bottled water costs money whilst tap water is free and of the same quality or (some would say) better.

tap water in some places near me is absolutely rank, cloudy and just puts me off drinking it

i did however grow up in yorkshire which has some of the better tap water in the country

 

[Globalti]

Tap water here in Lancs comes from Thirlmere and tastes delicious, much better than bottled which has a bland soapy flavour. I do agree that bottled water is the worst symptom of the stupid vain image-led lives some people lead.

And tap water costs £0.0016 a litre!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I just reuse the bottles. I'm always slightly annoyed with myself for forgetting.

Apparently you shouldn't reuse them too often as there are nasty chemicals used in making the bottles and eventually these get into the tap water you use to refill the bottle - maybe that's just just Evian propaganda, I don't know.

We use a water filter at home because the tap water doesn't taste great but I'll buy bottled if I'm out and about and thirsty!

I think if I was in Belgium, like Uncle Mort, I'd just stick to Belgian beer all the time as it's more refreshing than water anyway!!

 

[tyred]

Apparently you shouldn't reuse them too often as there are nasty chemicals used in making the bottles and eventually these get into the tap water you use to refill the bottle - maybe that's just just Evian propaganda, I don't know.

But is their any proof of that though? We all use and re-use plastic containers for food and drink and have done ever since plastic things became widely available. I'm not aware of anyone being poisioned as a result and they look fine even after continued use. Surely if they were giving off chemicals, the appearance of the plastic would change in some way.

 

[pubrunner]

I bought a multi-pack of water recently; on the pack it said . . . . . . .

'Supporting the Future of British Sport' and 'SportsAid'.

When I got home and looked more closely at one of the bottles, I found that the company (Saka) obtains the water ('bottled at source') from . . . . . . . Turkey !!!

http://sakawater.navson.co.uk/sportsaid.php

http://www.alibaba.com/product-tp/105538384/SAKA_Natural_Mineral_Water.html

 

[Paulus]

Just a thought, but many bottled water companies advertise that it is bottled at source. In the light of evidence that many of our streams and rivers are drying up in summertime, could it not be that it is because that too much water is being extracted at source and not naturally flowing from spring to stream to river?

 

[2wheelsgood]

I'm with Crankarm on this

"I think they should be banned simply for the mess the owners of them create in dumping them where ever they take their last sip. I would ban ALL small bottled drinks, small crisp packets and carriers bags. There's enough rubbish lying around ruining paths, woodlands and littering road side verges of which a large proportion is empty bottles, crisp bags and sweet wrappers. Around the schools the problem is acute."


I also find it baffling that people seem incapable of getting from A to B - however short the distance - without their plastic bottle of water. 'Just popping to the newsagents - have you seen my Evian?'

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Is water a fashion accessory? - you buy it if you're out and you're thirsty don't you?

 

[Greedo]

Exactly!!

Personally speaking the best water ever was the stuff out the tap in the apartment I lived in when I was 21 in Val d'Isere.

Freezing, clear, great tasting and great for a hangover which I had every morning for 6 months!

Is water a fashion accessory? - you buy it if you're out and you're thirsty don't you?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

a hangover which I had every morning for 6 months!

Halcyon days eh?!!

 

[Globalti]

Apparently you shouldn't reuse them too often as there are nasty chemicals used in making the bottles and eventually these get into the tap water you use to refill the bottle - maybe that's just just Evian propaganda, I don't know.

Yeah, bollocks as usual. If plasticisers were leaching out of the plastic into your water (unlikely with a PET bottle) the concentration would be hundreds of times higher after a few weeks in storage and transit to the shops than after a morning refill from the tap and lunchtime drink.

How they lie.