Outlawing Bottled Water
For those paying attention, calls for removal of plastics from our food and water and elsewhere in our household and workplace environments have been getting a whole lot louder recently and will...
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Get Off The Bottle
Here at the disinformation NYC offices we recently ditched our 5-Gallon water jugs and fitted a water filter cooler (tastes just as good, no more storage of those jugs - and it's cheaper!). We were...
View ArticleWhen Water Bottles Kill
Last week I posted a story about Tapped filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig's Get Off The Bottle tour. Stephanie and co-producer Sarah Olson came by the disinformation NYC offices and I asked her about her...
View ArticleAmerican Town Bans Bottled Water
Is this the beginning of the end for plastic bottles of water? Is there hope that the Great Pacific (and Atlantic) Garbage Patch might stop growing? Here at disinformation we’re sensitized to... The...
View ArticleFinally A Plastic That We Can Feel Good About
If this becomes real, maybe we can stop feeling so guilty about all those plastic water bottles. That’s a big ‘if,’ though, so get off the bottle for now… Story from Popular... The post Finally A...
View ArticleNestlé Steps Up The Bottled Water Battle
Deborah Ball looks at the Swiss bottled water giant Nestlé and its fight against those who prefer their water delivered in more responsible ways, in the Wall Street Journal: CASCADE LOCKS, Oregon—In...
View ArticleKatie Couric Gets ‘Tapped’– The Bottled Water Debate
Is bottled water bad for the environment? Katie Couric talks to Stephanie Soechtig, director of the disinformation documentary Tapped, and Joe Doss, president of the International Bottled Water...
View ArticleI’m Done With Celebrity Endorsements
Stephanie Soechtig, director of the disinformation documentary Tapped, writing at Huffington Post: At the risk of career suicide I’m calling bullshit on the hypocrisy of Hollywood and its celebrity...
View ArticleWant To Lose Weight? Simple – Drink Water!
Can it really be this easy? It certainly won’t cost much to try it out (just don’t use bottled water!). From Business Week: Close the diet books and skip the pills. The... The post Want To Lose Weight?...
View ArticlePlastic Bottles Can Ruin Your Sperm
For all you macho men who couldn’t give a crap about your carbon footprint, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and other problems associated with bottled water, maybe this will help you get... The post...
View ArticleErin Brockovich Where Are You? Hexavalent Chromium Found In 31 American Cities
This is the best advertisement for reverse-osmosis walter filters that I’ve seen yet. Mind you, the intentionally-added fluoride in many public water systems is just as bad — although interested...
View ArticleDid Coca-Cola Trash The Grand Canyon’s Plastic Bottle Ban?
It’s good to see the mainstream media calling foul on some corporate dirty work. Karin Kline writes in the LA Times: Grand Canyon National Park was just about to impose a ban... The post Did Coca-Cola...
View ArticleScientists Warn Against Drinking Warm Bottled Water
Remember the documentary Tapped, which focused on all the many reasons not to drink bottled water? Plenty of people ignored the warnings about BPA and phthalates leaching from the plastic into the......
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