weekly green tips – 720 less bottles
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Last year at this time, I wrote about one of my favorite green purchases of the year. After 18 months of use, I am still a huge fan of the home soda maker from Soda Stream.
No I don’t get any kickbacks, I just love this thing for a number of reasons. Prior to using it, my family would use about 4-5 bottles of sparkling water each week. Add to that the 6 bottles of Snapple we put away, and a carton or two of juice. While we recycled all those bottles, it still took a fair bit of energy to make, transport and recycle. Now, almost all of it has been replaced by sparkling water – made with tap water in a few seconds.
The soda maker costs about $200 and comes with glass bottles and CO2 cartridges. Each cartridge is good for about 30 bottles of sparkling water. After you use up a couple of CO2 cartridges, you log onto the website, order replacements (about $30 for 2), put yours on your doorstep and in a couple days you have new ones.
The results:
About 40 less bottles being bought, carried, stored and recycled each month
I’ve lost weight skipping those Snapples and drinking half sparkling water and half juice in the morning
We’ve saved approximately $500 including the cost of the soda maker and the CO2 refills.
Tagged: fizzy water, green tips, no more bottles, sparkling water
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