http://blog.ethicalsuperstore.com/we-love/bottled-water-doesnt-have-to-cost-the-earth/ Just another WordPress site Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:59:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.ethicalsuperstore.com/we-love/bottled-water-doesnt-have-to-cost-the-earth/#comment-394 Emily Evans Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:15:31 +0000 http://www.ethicalsuperstore.com/blog/?p=1736#comment-394 I feel I must respond to your comment that PET is easy to recycle. I live in a rural community where I have to take my recycling to the local car park. Fine so far, I don't have a problem and have a weekly trip with glass, newspapers and tetra-pack style cartons. I don't know of anywhere locally I can recycle PET. Councils are reluctanct to collect PET bottles because of the volume vs weight so I find it very unlikely that 130 out of 500 bottles are recycled. It is perhaps easy to use once recycled, so more suppliers should use packaging material made from recycled material, or offer a service like Ecover to refill, or Lush to recycle themselves. Another failing is councils refusal to recycle commercial waste, which is for another debate. It is not just the responsibility of bottled water suppliers but of all consumers to make their choice and whilst things are improving, no significant impact has been made. I feel I must respond to your comment that PET is easy to recycle. I live in a rural community where I have to take my recycling to the local car park. Fine so far, I don’t have a problem and have a weekly trip with glass, newspapers and tetra-pack style cartons. I don’t know of anywhere locally I can recycle PET. Councils are reluctanct to collect PET bottles because of the volume vs weight so I find it very unlikely that 130 out of 500 bottles are recycled. It is perhaps easy to use once recycled, so more suppliers should use packaging material made from recycled material, or offer a service like Ecover to refill, or Lush to recycle themselves. Another failing is councils refusal to recycle commercial waste, which is for another debate. It is not just the responsibility of bottled water suppliers but of all consumers to make their choice and whilst things are improving, no significant impact has been made.

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