How we baby boomers, made it through our childhoods without (disposable) water bottles?

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Anonymous wrote:35 pack non-reusable bottle buyer here.

While many of you are completely lying, we buy the multipacks of plastic bottles water. Why? Because we are middle class and yeah it’s easier. Our tap water more than likely is polluted despite what authorities say. Every year some pollution report comes out letting us know that indeed, the tap water sucks. My kids don’t keep up with their reusable bottles. They get dirty gross and lost.

And no I don’t think I’m raping the earth. Clothing production pollutes more than water bottles anyway.

But how are you sure of the quality of bottled water? It isn’t as regulated as tap water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents and youth sports players; I urge you to stop bringing plastic water bottles and snacks to the fields. I'm at my local field every weekend for my kid games and th sideline are an absolute mess...litter, mostly water bottles are everywhere.

Come on, no one brings plastic water bottles. People know those are bad and buy reusable. Everyone brings Gatorade because that’s so much better and kids need that with chips after one hour of activity. I’m with you and hate the snacks, mostly because we are having them binge on junk right at lunch time every week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:35 pack non-reusable bottle buyer here.

While many of you are completely lying, we buy the multipacks of plastic bottles water. Why? Because we are middle class and yeah it’s easier. Our tap water more than likely is polluted despite what authorities say. Every year some pollution report comes out letting us know that indeed, the tap water sucks. My kids don’t keep up with their reusable bottles. They get dirty gross and lost.

And no I don’t think I’m raping the earth. Clothing production pollutes more than water bottles anyway.

But how are you sure of the quality of bottled water? It isn’t as regulated as tap water.

We buy them too. Our lost and found at school has tables of water bottles. I think these are actually less plastic than losing reusable so often. They are a back up for when we can’t find any of our reusable. DH loses as many as the kids. I left my own on a field by accident this weekend. It runs in the family.

[Anonymous]

I graduated from high school in 89 and played field hockey and tennis. I remember we just had a big cooler of water and a bunch of disposable plastic cups. As for the regular school day— water fountains! I surely didn’t drink very much water during the day but don’t remember any ill effects.

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We live far from DMV and have a well that produces absolutely lovely water, which is double filtered before emerging from the tap. And still I've had guests who arrive with gallon jugs of grocery store "spring" water and refuse to drink anything else. One refused to drink my coffee because it was made from "tap" water.

Marketing is a powerful thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1962. I did many sports including track, soccer, and gymnastics.
I went to practice regularly with regular sneakers and I did well enough for many of my distance records to last for years after I graduated. I never owned a water bottle. I do remember thirst, but that was what water fountains were for. I even remember times when there were no water fountains, in those cases, we just waited (thirsty) until we got home. At home, I turned on the faucet, put my cupped hand under the faucet and guzzled as much water as I wanted.
I remember seeing the first water bottles being sold in the mid 80's. I thought that they would never sell. I thought that no one would ever pay good money for something that is free.

My children behave differently. First of all, they think that they need to drink more, and always have their water handy. I am not sure that there is any evidence that we need to drink any more than our bodies are telling us to, but my kids are hearing something else.
What I do know is that these single use plastics containing drinks of all sorts, and even the multi use plastic bottles are becoming a real environmental problem.
I know that humans need water, and a lot of it over a lifetime. So if every time we are thirsty, we need to twist a cap off a bottle, we are screwed. The plastic will pile up. It saddens me because the first step is really not even recycling, it is reprogramming out minds and not even buying the silly bottles in the first place.



I was born in 72 and I remember when bottled water first started being sold in the 80's, everyone asked, why would anyone pay for water? I also remember
the jokes about Evian being naive spelled backwards. Btw, if you were born in 62, you are a generation Xer, not a Boomer, despite what the official definition might be.


https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-drink/story?id=14054401

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
You don't need bottled water. Or even 8 glasses per day, unless you're....wait for it....thirsty.

It's marketing, pure and simple.

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-drink/story?id=14054401

http://theconversation.com/bottled-water-is-the-marketing-trick-of-the-century-25842

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92222327

The 8 glasses of water advice is so outrageous, how did people ever survive before the 90's without drinking 8 glasses of water a day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

But what are you filling it up with, tap or bottled water?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look, obviously all this use of plastic these days is a concern but why do you have to couch it in terms of baby boomer superiority? That's annoying. We're not superior. We just lived through different times. You can raise issues about waste of resources without making it a generational issue. But the way you framed this just makes it more fuel for inter-generational attacks.

It is annoying. It's also pretty rich it's a Boomer griping about this one thing when ithe Boomer generation as a whole pretty much trashed the environment and was one of the largest contributors to climate change. But I guess you can feel virtuous about the water fountain thing? All the young people I know use reausable plastic or aluminum bottles.

+1. The boomer generation was the one who created plastic bottles and marketed it to us in the 1990s, first for soda and then for water. Drinking water is a good thing, so why can’t we promote drinking out of reusable bottles? Oh that’s right, because it hurts Coke and Pepsi’s bottom lines.

OP is not actually a Boomer.

[Anonymous]

People still use disposable water bottles? Why?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Easy - We drank Diet Coke.

Tab!

Although there was a period of time when Tab and other diet sodas were thought to be carcinogenic. For some reason I associate cancer risk more with Tab than the others, maybe because I drank a lot of it. Perhaps water in plastic bottles would have been better.

In my house my mother NEVER would have spent money on something (water) you could get for free. Of course we weren’t allowed to drink soda either, that was a habit I picked up in college.

[Anonymous]

Water fountains.

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The faster the last Boomer dies off the better off we will all be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People still use disposable water bottles? Why?

I thought those heavy metal/stainless steel water bottles were all the rage now days (although I happily stick to my contigo).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.

And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included.

This. I have never seen a single use water bottle at a sports practice.