Green Product Review: The PUR Vertical Faucet Filter with Three-Stage Filtration

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - How often have you heard or seen this reminder? How many times have you given any thought to what it truly says? Too often, this phrase is used as an admonition to improve our recycling efforts. As a result, I feel that the true import of the phrase is lost. The effectiveness of recycling has been under fire since New York City suspended the recycling program for plastic and glass.

The claim was that it cost them more to recycle plastic and glass than it did to dispose of it in a landfill. Sadly, the study targeted the monetary cost, not the environmental cost. New York City eventually re-instated the recycling of glass and plastic, though under new management that has the program operating more efficiently. The impact of the study, however, has shaken the confidence in the importance of recycling. Efforts to restore that confidence in, and to stress the importance of, recycling have been made. Some of those efforts consist simply of repeating the mantra 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.' As this article intends to take a look at the benefits of using the PUR Water Filtration System, let's take a closer look at the mantra from that point of view:

Reduce - First and foremost, we are being encouraged to reduce - reduce the materials that we use so as to reduce the waste generated. This is the best advice, hence it is mentioned first. If we can refrain from using excessive amounts of plastic generated from bottled water, we can reduce the resulting waste. Avoiding the 'Recycle v. Landfill' debate by not generating the waste in the first place is a huge step towards 'being green.'

Reuse - when we must use plastics, we are encouraged to REuse them. This could mean washing out and refilling bottles with other drinks or cleaning solutions, using the materials in craft projects, or other uses. One thing that we have done with plastic bottles is to create mini seed-starter greenhouses (read the article regarding this project by clicking here). Again, reusing something prior to disposal makes sense, but only delays the inevitable.

The PUR Veritcal Faucet Filter with 3 Stage Filtration (via PUR.com's Media Kit)

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