This video is one that I sent to Drak (NCHiker1970) to show him how I#39;ve been using a Brita filter to sweeten the water I#39;ve treated with ...
A better Brita, thanks to Beth « Green as a Thistle
By Vanessa Farquharson
There are 581 mouldy Brita filters stinking up Beth Terry’s dining room, and she couldn’t be more pleased.
The 43-year-old accountant will eventually deliver all of these back to Brita, the water-purification company, to be properly recycled — something that’s only possible thanks to a campaign she spearheaded called Take Back The Filter. It took a lot of back-and-forth letter writing and phone calling, numerous posts on her blog, “Fake Plastic Fish,” and over 16,000 petition signatures, but on Nov. 18, Terry finally succeeded.
In a press release, the company explained that as of January, consumers across North America would be able to recycle their old filters by dropping them off at participating Whole Foods locations, where they’ll be included along with yogurt lids and other No. 5 polypropylene plastics in the Preserve “Gimme 5” program (those who aren’t near a Whole Foods can mail them directly to Preseve; see www.recycline.com/gimme5 ).
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