Think your plastic is being recycled? Think again. (link added)

[RufusTFirefly]

5. Everyone needs to stop drinking bottled water!!

One way to significantly reduce plastic consumption (and prevent the privatization of precious aquifers) is for everyone to abandon the bottled water fad.

Buy a reusable container and fill it with tap water.

What? You say you're afraid of your tap water? First of all, bottled water companies have been working overtime to elicit precisely that reaction. Mission accomplished.

And if for some reason your tap water truly is unsafe to drink, think about what that says about your local government. We need to demand that our local water supplies are safe to drink. City or county governments that have bottled water at their meetings should be ashamed of themselves. They are undercutting one of their own core responsibilities.

In the mean time, you'll still be wasting far less plastic and saving a lot of money as well if you buy a filter. How much you spend depends on how paranoid you are.