Bottled water banned in NSW?
Jul 9th 2009, 8:18 am
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
Make your own using this analysis: Badoit
Each litre (1,000 g) It contains a total of 1.851 g of various dissolved ions. Meaning that it is 99.8149% water.
Dissolve a small pinch of calcium, sodium, magnesium bicarbonate in the indicated proportions in distilled or deionized water and you have it.
Each litre (1,000 g) It contains a total of 1.851 g of various dissolved ions. Meaning that it is 99.8149% water.
Dissolve a small pinch of calcium, sodium, magnesium bicarbonate in the indicated proportions in distilled or deionized water and you have it.
Jul 9th 2009, 8:28 am
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
Not according to Burbage:
Oh, that's your other half?
Anyway, just knap a bit of rock off a dolomite outcrop, grind it finely, say in a mortar and pestle, pop about two grams of the dust into a roughly litre bottle of freshly opened "soda water" (aka "carbonated water"), re-seal, allow time for the calcium amd magnesium carbonate to dissolve in the carbonic acid and voila! - "mineral water" - with real minerals init.
Oh, that's your other half?
Anyway, just knap a bit of rock off a dolomite outcrop, grind it finely, say in a mortar and pestle, pop about two grams of the dust into a roughly litre bottle of freshly opened "soda water" (aka "carbonated water"), re-seal, allow time for the calcium amd magnesium carbonate to dissolve in the carbonic acid and voila! - "mineral water" - with real minerals init.
Jul 9th 2009, 9:38 am
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
http://www.theage.com.au/environment...0709-ddyh.html
Seems like there's a few nutters in charge of the NSW government, first they ban tim tams at city hall, now bottled water, and some towns have taken it on. I agree that something should be done to reduce consumption of oil and plastics, but a good working recycling program is what's needed. Banning bottled water in a country that temperatures can reach 50°+ is not a good idea for people or is it?
Surely banning all the soft drinks cans and beer bottles would come above water bottles?
Seems like there's a few nutters in charge of the NSW government, first they ban tim tams at city hall, now bottled water, and some towns have taken it on. I agree that something should be done to reduce consumption of oil and plastics, but a good working recycling program is what's needed. Banning bottled water in a country that temperatures can reach 50°+ is not a good idea for people or is it?
Surely banning all the soft drinks cans and beer bottles would come above water bottles?
What's needed in Australia is not a good working recycling programme (well, it is, but not for this purpose); what's needed is a good working re-use programme. By forcing drinks companies standardising bottle design and materials in each size, and charging a small deposit, bottle waste could plummet. IIRC, in Denmark Carlsberg gets about 90 uses per glass bottle and something similar per plastic soft drink bottle (they are made from slightly thicker plastic to last longer). There's no need to recycle something that can be reused perfectly well.
Jul 9th 2009, 10:16 am
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
What's needed in Australia is not a good working recycling programme (well, it is, but not for this purpose); what's needed is a good working re-use programme. By forcing drinks companies standardising bottle design and materials in each size, and charging a small deposit, bottle waste could plummet.
And kids all around the country are hoping it will come in, to top up their pocket money
Jul 9th 2009, 10:32 am
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
Having grown up in SA,us kids loved the refund from the bottles!lol A good money earner at Xmas,Easter and family parties lol
Jul 9th 2009, 12:18 pm
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
I remember them when they were widespread in Scotland (and I am not that ancient!).
We once convinced our friend that the bottle caps were worth the 10p/20p deposit (because that's where the sum was printed) and he tried to take them back. And another time we convinced him that you could take ice lolly sticks back too, and he tried again. We were very cruel children and he was a nice guy.
We once convinced our friend that the bottle caps were worth the 10p/20p deposit (because that's where the sum was printed) and he tried to take them back. And another time we convinced him that you could take ice lolly sticks back too, and he tried again. We were very cruel children and he was a nice guy.
Jul 9th 2009, 12:24 pm
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
Jul 9th 2009, 12:54 pm
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Re: Bottled water banned in NSW?
Whatever happened to Peckham Spring? Best water on the planet
