Bottled Up Part Deux

All the way back in the early days of this blog, I posted up an article about plastic bottles and the Sigg that I bought...Bottled Up Part 1


A new series on VBS.tv made me want to revisit this issue. The series is called Garbage Island, it has 12 parts and it is about the North Pacific Gyre which is a swirling whirlpool of trash (mostly plastics) that will never fully biodegrade. I first remember hearing about Trash Island in my Marine Biology class in high school, thanks Mr. Duff!

The series is very well put together and informative on the issue at hand.

Anyways, I still have that Sigg water bottle, I use it every day and it has ended my 1 or 2 plastic water bottle per day habit that I had going. So, lets delve into the numbers.

I bought that Sigg last August, about 8 months ago, and I have avoided using 1 or 2 bottles a day. So roughly, 8 months x 30 days x 1.5 bottles = 360 bottles. Yes, I would have recycled them but that still does not negate the fact that the bottles were made out of virgin petroleum, which is a whole other issue.

It is also worth mentioning that I now use reusable hemp grocery bags and a recycled PET lunch bag from Reusuable Bags.

Here is part one of the VBS series, Garbage Island. It's mental.