Cycle shop owner from Wales gets bottled water banned down under

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Crankarm

Crankarm

Guru
Location
Nr Cambridge
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 :wacko:.
 

Dan B

Disengaged member
Crankarm said:
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

Married to Night Train
Location
Salford, UK
Crankarm said:
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?
 
Location
Rammy
dodgy said:
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 :wacko:
 

Globalti

Legendary Member
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

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
Arch said:
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!! :evil:
 

tyred

Squire
Location
Ireland
threebikesmcginty said:
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.
 

Paulus

Started young, and still going.
Location
Barnet,
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

Well-Known Member
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?'
 

Greedo

Guest
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!

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

Globalti

Legendary Member
threebikesmcginty said:
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.
 
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