Helen CzerskiWe need to STOP giving out "free" plastic & metal reusable water bottles at events & as marketing materials. It's a terrible habit. If you actually care about the environment, tell everyone to bring their own bottle so they only ever have & need one. Don't waste materials/energy by giving out more!
Ian@helenczerski If I receive a goodie bag at an event, I make a point of returning the tat that I don't need on the spot. I just won't accept it.
mark@helenczerski the piles of reusable shopping bags and water bottles drive me crazy. So many that I will never use them, and never a purchase
Diana Barbosa 
๐บ๐ฆ๐ต๐ธ@helenczerski yep, I'm gathering quite a collection at home. ๐
Eoin O'Beara@helenczerski Completely agree. I have six water bottles, all "reusable" that I got at events but have never used.
SarcastiCat@helenczerski Agree 100%.
Also, if you have a cupboard full of water bottles, consider donating them to an organization that works with street people. If you live in the street, having a way to carry/drink fresh water can be a life saver.
And all those reusable shopping bags? People show up at food banks every day with no means to carry the donated food home, so pass your bags on to food banks.
So, stop tat & trash at the source, but use existing tat & trash to help people.
Esslar2@helenczerski Our county banned plastic bags at stores and I'm shocked at how easy it is to buy your own (recycled plastic or washable cloth) shopping bag for a couple of bucks and just bring it with you to the store. Now I no longer have piles of plastic bags sitting around. This is how things get done. As for bottles, I have a water container, not cheap, but so well insulated, that I use it all the time for sports and never bother with plastic bottles at all. On really hot days at home, I fill it with cold water and don't have to open the refrigerator all day!
don Elรญas (como los buses) ๐ฅจ@helenczerski if a brand puts its name on polluting and uneffective marketing plastic bottles, that makes me hate the brand
Adrian | ืืืจืืื@helenczerski It would also be a good habit to reject any free merchandising when you don't actually need it. Most of it just ends up unused in a cupboard.
Grandpa Don@helenczerski
To heck with marketing swag. I too have way too many of those, not recyclable.
To heck with marketing swag. I too have way too many of those, not recyclable.
kris@helenczerski i work at a thrift store and we get SO MANY cheap branded things that absolutely nobody else will ever want. itโs depressing.
Tirrimas 
๐ซ๐@helenczerski just stop with promotional tchotchkies period. Such a waste.
RiaResists@helenczerski
Every time I see those short little plastic bottles they use in our congress I want to throw up.
No justifying it.
Felt this way for years.
I always notice things like that. Those are easy ways to #reduce
#StopPlastic
Every time I see those short little plastic bottles they use in our congress I want to throw up.
No justifying it.
Felt this way for years.
I always notice things like that. Those are easy ways to #reduce
#StopPlastic
David Jaลกa@helenczerski
I like the concept of these being lent for much more than what their real price is (for example those reusable 0.5l plastic cups for โฌ2). You want a souvenir? You keep it and thus buy it. You want to minimize consumption? You take your own, or you borrow it and return it.
I like the concept of these being lent for much more than what their real price is (for example those reusable 0.5l plastic cups for โฌ2). You want a souvenir? You keep it and thus buy it. You want to minimize consumption? You take your own, or you borrow it and return it.
carlmyhill@helenczerski lots of companies heading for net zero send staff a box of 'goodies' when they join our periodically. I refuse such things and not many others do, they like the free crap.
Karen E. Lund ๐๐@helenczerski I have collected a few, probably five or six. They're nice reminders, useful, and in warm weather I keep a couple in the freezer for use on short notice.
But I agree we've reached peak water bottle. Those who use them probably have enough (me) and giving them to those who never use them is wasteful.
Suggestion: Have a few on hand, but you need to ask. Charge a nominal fee; even $1 will make people think before taking yet *another* water bottle.