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The Crazy World of Bottled Water

12/30/2018

By Eric Schiller

This Christmas Tim Hortons came out with their own brand of water (upper left). The price was $1.80 for a ½ litre plastic bottle. Now Loblaws has come out with their own bottled water (upper right). The price is 8 cents for a 1/2 litre of bottled water. Everybody is jumping on the plastic water bottle gravy train.

Here is a question. If Loblaws can make a profit selling bottled water at 8 cents a bottle, how much is Tim Hortons making, selling it at $1.80 a bottle?

And where are they getting their water from? We know that Coca Cola (Dasani) and Pepsi Cola (Aquafina) get a lot of their water right out of the tap. The average price of municipal tap water is ¼ cent per whole litre.

Everybody seems to be jumping aboard the plastic water bottle gravy train. It is a fast-moving train. And we know that fast moving trains are difficult to stop, but they eventually need to be stopped.

Come and join OWSAG in our efforts to stop this. Check here for our next meeting and how to join our bottled water campaign!

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The Bottled Water Scourge

12/2/2018

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By Adam Guzman-Poole

Do you know that one in five Canadians drink all of their water from throw-away plastic bottles? And do you know that despite the determined efforts to recycle these bottles most of them end up in landfills or are discarded into the environment? To address this problem, a group of concerned citizens in Ottawa has banded together to form the Ottawa Water Study/Action Group (OWSAG).

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