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Comment by Radhika Darbari on March 27, 2010 at 5:50pm
Giving you for spark...not sure what to say apart from appals me too what we are doing especially with bottling so many things we don't need to :-( Great picture to show how terrible it is.
Comment by Hans-Stefan Ducharme on March 27, 2010 at 5:52pm
a friend of mine worked for a local recycling company while i was at college. he help put all those recyclables we laid outside our house in plastic bags to pick up, or bags from redemption centers, into the back of the recycling truck.

i remember at a party i threw, he explained to me how they'd empty the recycling truck of all the plastic bottles at a site where they dumped them into a h***. there were so many bags full of plastic bottles of all kinds...

it's true, the methods we say we have don't work.
Comment by Nathan L Verrill on March 27, 2010 at 5:57pm
So how do we get clean water to people without plastic bottles? When I travelled in India, there was no way I would drink from anything but an unopened bottle, which was almost always a Bisleri plastic bottle. (and had to laugh at the Slumdog scene when they are re-using plastic bottles, refilling them with tap water, and putting the cap back on with super glue) Perhaps the water-purifying straw is the solution.
Comment by Nathan L Verrill on March 27, 2010 at 5:58pm
Now that I'm thinking about this more, as long as the bottles can be recycled, if they are the vehicle for saving lives, then I might recant my position. We should at least (perhaps) do away with them here in the US.
Comment by Bongumusa on March 27, 2010 at 6:00pm
I see a number of containers on your picture. But they don't say anything to me. I understand that containers can play a role in saving water and accessing it. But in a broad and macro termonology, it is not usefull. It is good for individuals, but not for sociaty solution. We need to remember that,most of the countries in world are poor,meaning that people who resides in those countries are automatically poor. What I am describing is that they can't manage to buy water in small containers every day. To find a solution for water crisis, we need to look at a broad issue. Because water shortages affect the wh*** societies, we need projects that can at least minimize water shortage by 75%. We need private firms that can invest on that projects. It is not exactly that water is totally unavailable, but water is under-ground. We need good people who can have skills to drain water. I would suggest Tanks and other big containers as solution to save water and to ensure accessibilty of water.
Comment by Nathan L Verrill on March 27, 2010 at 6:03pm
Thanks for your perspective Bongumusa. It is much appreciated. And actually, I posted this picture as a test post and was pleasantly surprised to have a response quickly -- including yours. Always good to stimulate conversation. Do you know of any other places where water has been stored successfully in large reservoirs? Even with them there are issues, but surely it would help. I love the children's merry go round that pumps water up from the ground. Well, anyway, cheers Bongumusa!
Comment by Patricio Buenrostro-Gilhuys on March 27, 2010 at 6:07pm
Comment by Julia M. on March 27, 2010 at 6:18pm
This reminds me of an exhibit I saw at the Pacific Science Center. It blew me away! Check it out at
http://www.pacsci.org/runningthenumbers/ or google Chris Jordan Running the Numbers to see his phots and read the statistics. It is TRULY incredible.
Comment by Shtanto on March 27, 2010 at 6:25pm
The real problem with recycling plastic bottles is that there's 2 types of plastic in each one. The caps are different from the bodies of the bottles, so you'd need an enzyme (or a dendrite compound) to take care of both. Algae might have the answer.
Comment by David Jason Wright on March 27, 2010 at 6:34pm
I think your best bet while traveling is a portable purification system of some kind. Here in the U.S. - man, we have the cleanest water of just about anywhere. If you don't live somewhere like Nevada, where the water's pretty bad, it's a waste of money to buy bottle after bottle of someone else's tap water. Get a purifier for your house and a glass or steel water bottle for carrying around if you have to. I bought a Clear2Go filtered bottle that I can fill up anywhere. It's great.

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