Comments on: Hype Water http://whateverhappenedtochrisgraham.com/2009/05/05/hype-water/ THIS BLOG IS ABOUT THINGS I LIKE Tue, 18 May 2010 05:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chad http://whateverhappenedtochrisgraham.com/2009/05/05/hype-water/#comment-240 Thu, 14 May 2009 02:01:48 +0000 http://whateverhappenedtochrisgraham.com/?p=581#comment-240 interesting chris. i wonder if you have had a chance to talk to the boxed water guys, given that they are in at madcap often. maybe because i know these guys, i have access to who they are and what they are about, but i would say in general, these guys would say the same things you are saying here….however they are trying to change the current bottled water system from the inside. i have actually heard them say they hope the bottled water industry collapses due to their involvement. its quite easy to just look at the industry and lump them in, but i would argue that maybe you are making some unfair assumptions….(the video brings up many issues that the boxed water guys are incorporating into their philosophy….the oil used in transportation: given boxes ship more efficiently, it uses less oil, as well as their goal of having a bottling plant within 200 miles of every customer! the boxes are compostable, changing the need to send the plastic overseas for recycling and then having us buy it back for use in our own manufacturing. they are actually working with several very large institutions to provide refilling stations so that their boxes will be re-used, similar to the nalgenes (and with the recent studies of bpa brought up in the video, should i just throw out the 4 nalgenes i own that have bpa now that we know its unhealthy?)

im not disagreeing that the system needs to change, however i am saying maybe more investigation should be done before we call out companies like boxed water, as i know these guys are working for the same things you and i are.

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