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Post by Gakuseinozen on Jul 15, 2014 21:06:58 GMT
I've been asking my friends/family to save water bottles/2 liters/milk jugs for me, and even set up a little donation box at work but it doesn't seem to be enough. People often forget and just throw them away. Anyone have any tips or shortcuts for getting water bottles? As a side note, I always make sure to mention that I recycle them after I'm done, in an effort to encourage them to help do something good for the environment (as well as provide some fun for me in the process)
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Post by Lonely Wolf Forge on Jul 15, 2014 21:47:14 GMT
buy them at a gas station. a 36 pack of water is like 4.99
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Post by Gakuseinozen on Jul 15, 2014 22:04:06 GMT
Trying to avoid simply wasting the water... I realize most bottled water is tap water put through a filter, but still
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Post by Gakuseinozen on Jul 15, 2014 22:06:37 GMT
I should add that we don't drink bottled water in our house... might be time to start, though.
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Post by Voltan on Jul 15, 2014 22:09:44 GMT
The local drive-through coffee shack by my house saves their milk jugs for me upon request. One days worth can yield a lot of jugs, both gallon and half-gallon. I'll throw a five-dollar-bill in their tip jar when I pick'em up.
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Post by Gakuseinozen on Jul 15, 2014 22:16:08 GMT
That's the kind of thing I was looking for. Milk jugs are my favorite, too Just have to figure out the best way to ask them for something like that lol
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Post by LG Martial Arts on Jul 15, 2014 22:32:43 GMT
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Post by johnwalter on Jul 16, 2014 0:43:19 GMT
Pull them out of your local recycling bin.Most towns around here have at least one somewhere,usually in a large parking lot somewhere.I used to get all my bottles and newspapers out of recycling bins.
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 16, 2014 2:49:51 GMT
If you're going to fill them with water then isn't it just the same as buying them already full? Arguably worse if the first round of water in the bottles was wasted as it was emptied from the bottles. Either way it would be at least the same amount of wasted water. Maybe consider reusing water from around your home. Having a bath? fill empty bottles with the water before draining the tub! Doing laundry? catch that rinse water before it goes down the drain! Raining? Get a rain barrel!
I'd just buy cheap cases of water - store brand cases go on sale for about $2 all the time at grocery stores.
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Post by Gakuseinozen on Jul 16, 2014 5:31:43 GMT
Well when I fill them I fill them with pool water. I then put my cutting stand near the drains that go to the pool. This results in a net zero use of water, minus some evaporation of course but that occurs constantly with the pool anyway.
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Post by johnwalter on Jul 16, 2014 5:32:52 GMT
Great point Chris.But,Im on well water,with alot of iron,so bought water is used for drinking.And recycling bins yield many different sizes,half gallon amd gallon milk jugs,two liter soda bottles,etc.
P.S.please always return your bottles to a recycling bin,whether they came from one or not. :-)
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Post by applejack on Jul 17, 2014 20:37:42 GMT
I just buy lots of 2liter when they are on sale and just save up. Right now after 2 weeks i have 25-50 bottle ready for cutting. I never had problems finding bottles to cut, i just walk around town and pick up any thing i find.
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