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Primo Water
A bottled water company that bottles water in containers made form corn.
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I really hope they are in it for the money
I learned about Primo on a supposedly green podcast recently. They are a bottled water company who claims to be saving the planet by bottling their water in containers made from corn. They were the paid sponsors of the podcast and were also (coincidence) the subject and interview of the podcast. As I listened, the host talked about how she was sitting at a table next to her stainless steel water bottle and drinking out of the Primo bottles that the company had "sent over." The interview was basically a 20 minute commercial for the product, in which the owner of the company issued all of the standard bottled water company lies: he talked about how is bottled water is better for people than regular water, how it is refortified with minerals, and how Americans on the whole are dehydrated - so they should buy HIS water and drink it to be healthier. Then he went on to talk about how people buying his water were actually doing something GOOD for the environment because they were supporting American corn farmers, not gas companies. There was of course no mention of how much energy/coal was needed to pump, filter bottle and refortify this water, or how much gas was needed to ship these bottles all over the country.
I have heard a lot of talk lately about how green is a process and none of us are perfect. I agree with this statement - I still have a footprint. I also understand that some people have larger footprints than me - that is OK too. But at some point, that footprint is just too large for you to claim to be doing something. If you live in a McMansion, don't recycle, drive unnecessarily etc. but then put CFL bulbs in your house, that does NOT count as going green. It's a process yes, and no-one is perfect yes, but there is NO reason for 99% of Americans to ever buy a bottle of water. I pray this company is just in it for the money, because if they are actually drinking this kool-aid than i fear for the state of our movement.
Adam's keywords: water containers, plastic, crude oil, corn farmers
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