tap water is a company based out of Canada that specializes in selling reusable glass drinking bottles. Their product is high quality, portable and non-leaking which makes it a perfect alternative to plastic water bottles. According to their website, less than 20% of plastic drinking bottles are recycled. That's really staggering to me, considering how many recycling programs and initiatives there are nation-wide.
"Using glass to bottle beverages is one of the oldest and most trusted methods for packaging liquids. It is made from naturally occurring minerals and doesn’t carry health risks, related to toxic chemicals leaching from plastic and metal containers. "
As you may have read on the previous post, I am thrilled with my purchase from tap water. I bring it to work, filling it with our filtered water cooler water and sip on it all day. I clean it in the evening, refill, and keep it cold until I leave the next morning. I haven't dropped it (yet) but from what I've read they are fairly durable, though of course not indestructible.
The company actually gets their bottles from a manufacturer in Italy and of course ship from Canada, so there is argument that portion of the transaction is not as "green" as I'd like, but considering all the other resources I am not wasting by using this lovely piece of glass, I'm feeling okay about the process.
Here's another tidbit from their website that made me realize how ridiculous bottled water truly is:
It’s simply impossible to get chemical-free water from a plastic bottle. Even small amounts of bacteria at bottling can multiply to a much larger problem by the time the product gets to you. It’s unrealistic to think that water bottled in plastic containers, produced at a bottling factory, transported and stored at high temperatures for months at a time, can be purer than what a basic home water filtration system can deliver. And at least two out of every five bottles of water sold around the world are simply filtered tap water. Tap water is constantly moving, staying fresh and never stagnating. It is also filtered, disinfected, and is tested many times a day. In contrast, no filtration or disinfection requirements - and virtually no international quality standards - exist for bottled water.
Need more convincing? Go visit their website and soon you too will find yourself ordering from Rachel and the tap water family.
