Sunday, April 19, 2009
How Green Is My Bottle?
Have you ever think what the word “green” means? I always think that it is something environmentally friendly. Often we have to choose from two evils the least one but it appears that sometimes we are mistaken. Daniel Goleman and Gregory Norris researched the damage on the environment using the stainless steel water and plastic bottles. I was surprised that the stainless steel water bottle needs seven times as much fossil fuel, frees 14 times more greenhouse gases, involves the extraction of hundreds of times more metal resources and causes hundreds of times more toxic risk to people and ecology than a 32-gram plastic bottle makes. So what things we use calling them “green”! Is there really innocuous material that we can use in our everyday life without any risk?
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Yana,I find the topic of the discussion writen in the article you've described really interesting! For me it's also a great surprise that stainless bottle needs 7 times as much as fossil fuel!
So, what do you think people should do in order to protect as possible the environment?
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