# Happy to recycle my water bottle BUT... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 4, 2017, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376 "2017-03-04T13:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376/21 "2017-03-07T11:57:00Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > My son regularly turns off the water when I am doing dishes. Sounds like he wants to do the dishes. Why resist? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2017, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376/22 "2017-03-07T12:25:49Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I bet he’s riffing off the old George Carlin routine, when pokes fun at “Save the Planet” campaigns. As George so eloquently put, the _planet_ will be fine. It’s the _people_ that are fucked. Paraphrasing Lemmy on man’s ability to destroy the planet: “The earth is made of volcanoes. We aren’t going to destroy the earth, we’re just going to destroy that bit of it that we need.” ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376/23 "2017-03-08T22:35:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Sounds like he wants to do the dishes. Why resist? Because then I would have to dry them and put them away. 🙂 That’s the deal, I wash, he dries and puts away. One thing in this thread I remembered. It’s kind of a lenten observance, (I don’t take Lent very seriously but lately I use it as a way to focus on an aspect of my life)I have quit using my car for errands/chores less than a 20 minute walk away. The intent is to put the equivalent cash /gas expense into an environmental charity. The fact that it even tweaked my radar must mean I do it too often. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376/24 "2017-03-09T09:59:37Z")
The whole crusade against bottled water makes me crazy. If I’m drinking a coca-cola, nobody bats an eyelash. Toxic sugar levels attacking my pancreas, acid attacking my teeth, other chemicals doing goodness knows what. . . but if I’m out and about, and I get thirsty, and grab something wholesome and healthy, I get dirty looks all around. Bless their little hearts! My car. Public trans. around here just isn’t reliable. I’m sorry, but I won’t leave the house an hour early every day just to save on gasoline. You take your life in your hands, I"m telling you! Cheap goods shipped all the way from China. Some things I can wait a few weeks to get, so I get them from AliBaba - shipped straight from the factory at a 90% discount from the local retailer. So sue me. I’m an acquisition professional, I’m incapable of paying too much for things. Amazon 2-day delivery. Other things I need right now demmit, and I’m not going out to the store unless I have to. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376/25 "2017-03-09T11:09:43Z")
> [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](#): > > Because then I would have to dry them and put them away. 🙂 That’s the deal, I wash, he dries and puts away. Well, that’s cool. I had pictured him walking through the kitchen and critiquing your dishwashing. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-to-recycle-my-water-bottle-but/781376.md?page=1)