"Meaning isn't something you discover. It's something you create, one step at a time."

A Solution To Plastic Water Bottles

Posted: July 7th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Cool Ideas | 5 Comments »

boxed-water

It’s so brilliant because it’s so simple. You still get the benefit of disposable water, but without the everlasting pollution that is plastic water bottles.

Check out more details here.

- Christian

5 Comments on “A Solution To Plastic Water Bottles”

  1. 1 your sister said at 4:04 am on July 8th, 2009:

    I don’t like this — I think its a little silly for the following reasons:

    1) Drinking out of a carton is not ideal. The rate of spillage and leakage probably increases dramatically with a carton.

    2) Why do you need to buy water anyways? In Canada as with may regions of the world, buying bottled/cartoned water is nonsensical and pointless as the public water sources are often cleaner as they must adhere to higher standards than their private counterparts.

    3) There is still the issue of transporting cartoned water from x to z which requires g (gas).

  2. 2 Christian said at 8:04 am on July 8th, 2009:

    I think that these cartons work as a substitute for bottled water. There is always going to be a need for disposable drink containers. Think about all of the other drinks (like Diet Coke) that use plastic bottles. This is just one small step to replace the plastic (which never degrades) with a carton (which is compostable).

  3. 3 your sister said at 1:48 am on July 9th, 2009:

    I still think its stupid. Maybe people should just get charged outrageous prices for buying a bottle of water and then maybe they’ll stop consuming something that comes for free out of a tap. Like plastic bags in grocery stores…charge ‘em until people learn.

    If DC came out of a tap there is no effin way I would be spending any amount of money on it no matter what packaging it came in.

    Bottled/Cartoned water is not cool.

  4. 4 Christian said at 8:33 am on July 9th, 2009:

    The bottled water industry is so big in North America that it can be broken out into 4 segments. And people are willing to pay the extra for convenience.

    Adding a tax will not solve the problem, since people are already willing to pay for convenience. You have to find a way to replicate the convenience in an environmentally friendly way. And I think that the carton does that.

  5. 5 Lee Washington said at 8:50 am on July 15th, 2009:

    In terms of cradle to cradle design this still misses a huge point because the facility to recycle these cartons doesn’t exist while it does for PET bottles. Nice idea that they can be transported flat. Surely there’s a design for a collapsible PET bottle out there?

Leave a Reply