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Water bottle

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 08:36

I need to ask what is the point of a water bottle? They coming all different colours and do look nice but I have never used one because if I need water I just go to a shop and buy a bottle of cold water. Where's a water bottle when you have drunk all the water you have got to carry around with you an empty water bottle but where's a bottle off shop bought water you just drink the water and throw the empty container in the bin. I really do not want to be carrying around an empty water bottle when I'm going out somewhere I don't see the point and it's just one extra thing to carry

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GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 01/05/2025 08:37

If you really need to ask, I despair.

TigerRag · 01/05/2025 08:38

What's the point of wasting money and plastic on a disposable bottle when you could buy a reusable bottle?

TheFlis · 01/05/2025 08:39

So you have honestly never heard of all the environmental issues around single use plastics and microplastics?? Do you live under a rock?

Littledidsheknow · 01/05/2025 08:40

Is this a joke?

andtheworldrollson · 01/05/2025 08:40

Because it wastes money and harms the planet but you know that already so ?

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 08:41

At work we have a water fountain with plastic cups which gives ice cold water and if the water you are drinking gets warm left on your desk you just toss it away and refill your plastic cup with more cold water but many of my colleagues sit there was a water bottle and I hate them

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CurlewKate · 01/05/2025 08:41

Transport costs. Carbon footprint. Climate change. Landfill.

Twoshoesnewshoes · 01/05/2025 08:42

Is this a reverse?
btw, lovely water bottles in TKMaxx at the mo

frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 08:49

Lol.

Where do you work that has plastic cups at water coolers, for the last 5 years I've only seen paper cones.

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 09:12

frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 08:49

Lol.

Where do you work that has plastic cups at water coolers, for the last 5 years I've only seen paper cones.

I work in government and we have plastic cups delivered each day. I have never worked in any government office building which has those paper cones

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frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 09:21

PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 09:12

I work in government and we have plastic cups delivered each day. I have never worked in any government office building which has those paper cones

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Well I can tell you now that WaterLogic, the company my husband works at supplies the watercooler cups to parliament and the house of commons.

They are 100% plastic free.

🤷

frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 09:29

In fact depending on where you work they may be breaking the contract they have with waterlogic by having plastic cups.

Could you please be specific with where in the government you apparently work?

Because this is a very serious matter if what you say is true.

TwinklyNight · 01/05/2025 09:39

I like my own water bottles from home.

CurlewKate · 01/05/2025 09:44

I was watching an episode of Starsky&Hutch last night. They had paper cups by the office water cooler in 1974….

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 09:54

frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 09:29

In fact depending on where you work they may be breaking the contract they have with waterlogic by having plastic cups.

Could you please be specific with where in the government you apparently work?

Because this is a very serious matter if what you say is true.

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No im not being spècific.

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frenchnoodle · 01/05/2025 10:04

PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 09:54

No im not being spècific.

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You have made a very serious accusation about government departments breaking their contract by ordering an amazing number (daily deliveries) of plastic cups.

Surely you understand why this needs to be investigated, multiple departments over a number of years?

Waterlogic provides 100% plastic free, resuable cups and cones for water coolers and hot drinks. If they have another supplier as you allege, and one as frequent as daily , it needs to be investigated.

Especially as you've never seen a paper cup in any department you've worked at.

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 11:30

My local NatWest Bank have a water cooler with plastic cups so do a lot of other buildings that I have gone into

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 11:33

I belong to a keep fit class and halfway through we have a tea break and if you don't bring your own mug from home they will give you one of those plastic cups in a holder and you drink your tea out of that so if anyone on here is going to have a go at me because of where I work in plastic cups then they should sink about all the other places that also have plastic cups because there are so many places it would take you months and months to report all of them

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Rosecoffeecup · 01/05/2025 11:59

What a strange thread

If you drink the contents of your water bottle you can refill it? Loads of public places have water fountains specifically for this purpose

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PerkyOchrePeer · 01/05/2025 16:21

Rosecoffeecup · 01/05/2025 11:59

What a strange thread

If you drink the contents of your water bottle you can refill it? Loads of public places have water fountains specifically for this purpose

I do not like water bottles so I won't be having it with me to fill up from anywhere I thought I made that clear

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SEmyarse · 01/05/2025 16:39

I've just come back in from a day's deliveries. Can you imagine how many disposable bottles of water I'd get through in my van on a hot day?? I take 3 insulated bottles and get customers to refill when I run out.

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PerkyOchrePeer · 03/05/2025 11:58

SEmyarse · 01/05/2025 16:39

I've just come back in from a day's deliveries. Can you imagine how many disposable bottles of water I'd get through in my van on a hot day?? I take 3 insulated bottles and get customers to refill when I run out.

I would use disposable bottles you just drink the water so the bottle away and get another one simple as that

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Ginmonkeyagain · 03/05/2025 15:43

I carry a water bottle as it is better for the environemnt and cheaper (in London there are free water fountains in the street).

We have glasses next to the water tap at work because we are not savages.

HTH

SEmyarse · 03/05/2025 21:10

PerkyOchrePeer · 03/05/2025 11:58

I would use disposable bottles you just drink the water so the bottle away and get another one simple as that

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What an enormous waste of money apart from anything else!

Pickingmyselfup · 03/05/2025 21:30

Reusable water bottles are more cost effective and more environmentally friendly.

I use one for the gym which is easy to chuck in my bag and fill when I get there, if I forget I have to use a cup which is easier to spill and not as easy to carry.

I use one or two for a long run which I do weekly and even my short ones in summer I take a little one out with me. If I had to buy them it would cost me a fortune!!

I do buy small sparkling waters to drink in the morning but I don't think there is an alternative for that, it's not like it comes out of the tap.