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After researching and trying all of the options, I believe the best type of reusable bottle is a high quality stainless steel bottle with a wide mouth and decent cap. Stainless steel doesn’t leach anything into your drink and is dishwasher safe. If it has a wide opening you can easily keep it clean and insert ice. Drinks taste good and stay cold; there is no residual odor or stain inside from yesterdays sports drink. It is also very durable and ultimately recyclable. If you fill your cool stainless steel water bottle with tap water from home, you’ll be enjoying the most cost-effective and carbon-conscious drink under the sun.
To learn more about all the water bottle options, please click on reusable bottle comparison table.
Most people probably don’t think about where their bottled water comes from, but if they knew they might not feel so good about it. The two main sources – municipal supplies and springs are both problematic.
About 40% of bottled water is simply filtered tap water. That begs the questions: why pay so much for it and why drag huge cases of it home from the store when the same thing is readily available from your faucet? It is much cheaper and more convenient to drink your own tap water even if you filter it.
While buying tap water in bottles may strike you as costly and inefficient, buying spring water may make you feel downright inconsiderate. Picture huge tanker trucks rumbling through small towns 24-7 to keep bottling plants fed with spring water. How about local residents finding lower water levels in their lakes, streams, or wells due to this over-pumping? There is also an impact to local ecosystems when huge quantities of water are removed entirely from a watershed.
In light of these unappealing choices, a third option, filling reusable bottles with tap water looks like the easy and cost-effective solution to the bottled water enigma.
If you want to learn more about the problems with bottled water and about how to choose a reusable bottle, visit http://www.back2tap.com/ .
