This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

That’s quite a chilling graphic.

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

Yike. That’s a lot more than I expected. I was thinking particularly Pacific Islands and other islands.

sibeen said:

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

That’s quite a chilling graphic.

It’s also inaccurate. They include Adelaide as being okay…

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

Mind you there are plenty of wankers in the blue areas that refuse to drink tap water…

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

I thought it was pretty accurate.

For moll ;)

When I lived in Saudi we all drank bottled water, but that was 40 years ago.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

I thought it was pretty accurate.

For moll ;)

When I lived in Saudi we all drank bottled water, but that was 40 years ago.

I probably should have read dv’s last post before admitting to that :)

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

I thought it was pretty accurate.

For moll ;)

When I lived in Saudi we all drank bottled water, but that was 40 years ago.

I probably should have read dv’s last post before admitting to that :)

I’m sure Saudi 40 years ago was one of the places it was non-wankerish to drink tap water…

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I thought it was pretty accurate.

For moll ;)

When I lived in Saudi we all drank bottled water, but that was 40 years ago.

I probably should have read dv’s last post before admitting to that :)

I’m sure Saudi 40 years ago was one of the places it was non-wankerish to drink tap water…

They actually had a desal plant (in Jeddah), but it wasn’t connected to many houses at that time.

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I probably should have read dv’s last post before admitting to that :)

I’m sure Saudi 40 years ago was one of the places it was non-wankerish to drink tap water…

They actually had a desal plant (in Jeddah), but it wasn’t connected to many houses at that time.

my half BiL used to sell reverse osmosis plants to saudi 40+ years ago.

dv said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

What a load, you can drink tap water anywhere there is a tap that works, whether it makes you sick or not is another thing…

And I’ve drank tap water in some of those white bits, was fine.

poikilotherm said:

What a load, you can drink tap water anywhere there is a tap that works, whether it makes you sick or not is another thing…

Lol

furious said:

sibeen said:

dv said:

I think you’ve overstated the case somewhat but I catch your drift.

The white bits

That’s quite a chilling graphic.

It’s also inaccurate. They include Adelaide as being okay…

and Italy’s tap water is simply redirected spring water. Though yes it does come out of taps.

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

Aren’t you forgetting the places that don’t repair thongs?

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

Aren’t you forgetting the places that don’t repair thongs?

I did have that in mind :-)
Thongs are not the main source of litter on beaches where plastic pollution is a huge problem.

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

This had never occurred to me until last week.
The countries most responsible for oceanic beach pollution are those without a reliable piped water supply.
When all the people have to drink is bottled water and other drinks, those drink bottles are going to end up in the ocean.

So to fix the oceanic garbage patch problem we need reliably piped water supplies for island countries.

So. How many countries/cities rely on bottled water for survival?

Aren’t you forgetting the places that don’t repair thongs?

I did have that in mind :-)
Thongs are not the main source of litter on beaches where plastic pollution is a huge problem.

Neither are plastic water bottles. You only see them in quiet, still water because they float.

roughbarked said:

mollwollfumble said:

roughbarked said:

Aren’t you forgetting the places that don’t repair thongs?

I did have that in mind :-)
Thongs are not the main source of litter on beaches where plastic pollution is a huge problem.

Neither are plastic water bottles. You only see them in quiet, still water because they float.

and plastic pollution is a huge problem everywhere and it isn’t only the sea.

I’m an organic gardener and my backyard is literally full of plastic.

I mean decent garbage collection and waste management systems in some of these places would also help…

dv said:

I mean decent garbage collection and waste management systems in some of these places would also help…

There is no doubt that our decent garbage collection doesn’t really help all that much. Most of it still lays all over the place and that’s not simply because we are lazy fuckheads who say I love this country while we toss our maccas bag and drink container out the window of the car.

The very real issue is that we are a throw away society.
We make more garbage than our so called decent garbage collection can actually handle. We either don’t bother to sort our recycling or the manufacturers don’t assist by joining paper cardboard and plastic together in ways that are almost impossible to separate.

eg; do you tear the plastic bit around the inside of a tissue box out and put it in the appropriate bin before you put the tissue box in the recycling?

Do any of you really care at all or is it just about laughing at other peoples statistics?

I thought I was doing good by growing trees and giviing them away for less than it cost to grow them if they brought back tthe pots for recycling. All that gave me was a backyard full of smaller and smaller bits of plastic pots.

imagine if goods were priced according to their waste consequences as well as all the other pricing factors so far

SCIENCE said:

imagine if goods were priced according to their waste consequences as well as all the other pricing factors so far

Considering that pakaging is 4/5 of the cost of the article now.

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

imagine if goods were priced according to their waste consequences as well as all the other pricing factors so far

Considering that pakaging is 4/5 of the cost of the article now.

the death of SCIENCE, it’s not what you have to say, it’s how you say it, no wonder we’re in racist infectious climate disaster

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

imagine if goods were priced according to their waste consequences as well as all the other pricing factors so far

Considering that pakaging is 4/5 of the cost of the article now.

the death of SCIENCE, it’s not what you have to say, it’s how you say it, no wonder we’re in racist infectious climate disaster

What did I say?

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

Considering that pakaging is 4/5 of the cost of the article now.

the death of SCIENCE, it’s not what you have to say, it’s how you say it, no wonder we’re in racist infectious climate disaster

What did I say?

you reminded us that people care about packaging 4 times more than content

SCIENCE said:

roughbarked said:

SCIENCE said:

the death of SCIENCE, it’s not what you have to say, it’s how you say it, no wonder we’re in racist infectious climate disaster

What did I say?

you reminded us that people care about packaging 4 times more than content

yeah. :( sorry about that.