Cheap?
I walked into Wally World today to get some cinnamon. (It's
good for the heart, and flavors my oatmeal.) On the way out there was a big bin
of bottled water, not cases - individual bottles, and not even cold. The sign
indicated that they were inexpensive, but they were still 50Ȼ each. When you
buy a case of 24 for $3.00 that's about
12 Ȼ apiece.
But the real cost isn't the 12 Ȼ or 50 Ȼ or $1.50 that you
might pay for a bottle - the real cost
comes at the expense of the environment.
Finish the bottle and throw it away - wherever you happen to be, and if
there's no recycle bin it goes in the trash or on the ground. Recycling costs money, but not recycling
costs space. Those plastic bottles don't magically disappear overnight, they're
not biodegradable, and we can't even begin to know what kind of toxins they
might release during the 450 years (450! And some sources estimate up to 1000
years) We can't begin to know because
even the earliest of these bottles haven't finished decomposing yet.
Yes they're convenient, but maybe there's a better way to
get the fluid we need each day than to throw bottle after bottle into the
landfill.
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