Is boxed water better for the planet? This peculiarly named company—“Boxed Water is Better”—says it is. Similarly to milk boxes, the box produced by the company is 90% made from trees harvested from managed areas. Unlike regular plastic bottles, which come from petroleum.
The boxes are manufactured in a folded and flat shape, which reduces in 80% the carbon footprint of the packaging and distribution process, in comparison to plastic bottles.
Another nice thing is that twenty percent of the profits go back to “nature”. Ten percent go to foundations for the preservation of water springs and reservoirs, and the other 10 percent go to reforestation foundations.
Regarding this package, tetrapack has elaborated a guide (pdf file) explaining how it differs from plastic bottles.
- Do you have Motorola batteries?
- Batteries?
- Yes. My cell’s battery is too weak, it can’t last a whole day.
- What is the model?
- This one.
- But this cell phone is not that old…
- Yes! Those batteries don’t last a single day!
- Why don’t you buy a new cell phone?
- Why? My cell is working perfectly. It’s just the battery that doesn’t work.
- Look, I don’t even have this kind of battery here, to sell.
- So, take it from a new cell phone.
- I can’t. You have to buy the whole cell.
- Where do I find only the battery?
- It’s complicated…
- What do you mean by that?
- That it is easier for you to change your phone.
- Wow, that’s amazing: a salesman trying to push me a completely unnecessary sale!
- I know it looks like salesman bullshit… But I’ll show you it’s true. Give me your SSN for me to check how many points you have to redeem.
- Can I buy a new battery with them?
- In theory, yes, you could, but they stopped sending single batteries here. Nobody buys them. It’s a lot cheaper to change the whole phone. Look: you have 943 points to redeem. You can take an excellent phone with those points, with digital camera, mp3, video recorder…
- But a battery, that’s what I need…?
- No. This battery used to cost R$199 last time I received it, some months ago.
- That’s expansive!
- Didn’t I tell you?
- What if I take it to the service assistant?
- They’ll charge you that at least. Because you can’t fix a battery, you have to change it. It runs out.
- But my phone isn’t 2 years old!
- Yes. But this is made not to last, for you to, in a few months, want to change. And, tell me, only a stupid person would prefer an old phone when you can take a brand new one for free.
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