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...Putting a Cap on Bottle Waste Re Bryan Walsh's "Back to the Tap" [Aug. 20]: After living more than 30 years in countries in which drinking tap water was a known risk, I was amazed to come home and find everyone buying water. First, I thought they bought the plastic bottles and filled them from the tap. But no, they bought them, water and all, at the supermarket, lugged them home and refrigerated them. And when they had emptied the bottles, they disposed of them in the trash. How about the water I drank overseas? It had been carried...
Wine sold in the same type of plastic bottles that Aquafina uses to hold tap water is about to hit U.S. consumers, thanks to Bob Peter, a man who buys a lot of wine. Not a lot of wine like your alcoholic uncle buys a lot of wine or even like your local wine store buys a lot of wine. As CEO of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario, Peter buys wine for 12.7 million Canadians, since all the wine in that province has to be sold in government-run stores. So when he merely suggested in 2005 that wine...
...wants all of it. When he is finished, the people clap and whoo-hoo and head up to shake his hand and hug Elizabeth. A gray-haired woman in front of me, who wears a blouse covered with Harley-Davidson logos, is cheering as hard as anyone, so I tap her on the shoulder. When she turns, I can suddenly see the tears welling up in her eyes. I apologize for intruding and say, "He touched you, didn...
...Bryan Walsh's "Back To The Tap" [Aug. 20]: Replacing high-calorie drinks with more healthful bottled water should not be a threat to the health of the environment. On average Americans get 226 more calories from beverages than they did a generation ago, and the number of overweight and obese children is up 360%. Clearly, Americans need to drink more water, whether bottled or tap. People want to make environmentally responsible choices, and Nestlé Waters does too. Our Eco-shape half-liter bottle has less plastic than any comparably sized beverage container in the U.S.--and all our plastic...
After living more than 30 years in countries in which drinking tap water was a known risk, I was amazed to come home and find everyone buying water. I think tap water is great. Selling water is surely the biggest scam of the century, and Americans have fallen...