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I took out my old brita filter, and the four holes in the bottom had green dots in it, not just the black I was expecting for the carbon. So I thought it was mold. I bought a new package of filters, and ALL FOUR fillters had the green little balls in them. Does anyone else have these little green balls in their filter ( in bottom four holes) . Is yours just black ( carbon) and I thus have mold?? Help!!!
I've been using a Brita water filter pitcher for several years, and I don't recall ever seeing green dots in the filter cartridges. Their FAQ section says spare filters should be kept in a cool, dry, place, but they should last indefinitely.
You can send Brita's customer support a question at http://www.brita.com/index_us.html , or call them: 1-800-24-27482. (This is contact info. for U.S. customers.) Ask them what's going on! If they say this is normal, please post that info. Thanks.
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Ratan Tata was once inspired to build a cheap car when he saw a family of four balanced on a bicycle in his native India. Now that the Tata Nano “people’s car” is a reality, the business tycoon has unveiled an even more useful product for India and the world. Globally, over a billion people do not have daily access to safe drinking water. The types of water delivery systems we use are prohibitively expensive for many countries. Around 380,000 children in India alone will die this year from diarrhea, mainly caused by the water they consume. An estimated 85% of people in India do not filter their water before drinking. If there were some way to make filtering easy and affordable for them, it would prevent many cases of illness due to waterborne pathogens.
Tata Chemicals, a division of Ratan Tata’s business empire, has unveiled their latest gadget, a water filter called the Tata Swach . The technology isn’t all that complicated. The Tata Swach uses rice husk ash (a product very abundant in India) coated with silver nanoparticles to filter microbes from the water. Rice husk ash has been used for centuries to clean teeth. Now it can clean water to be used for cleaning teeth. The advantages of the Tata Swach include the fact that it needs no electricity. India has 400 million people who are not connected to the electrical grid, and those tend to be the same people who aren’t served by a water system. The Tata Swach unit hold 9.5 liters at a time and will clean 3,000 liters of water on one filter cartridge, enough to last a family of five about a month.
...Brita To Take Back Brita Filter Cartridges for Recycled Use ...
Taking into account the call to utilize its current mold of filter cartridges, Brita has taken such into consideration and has announced that all recycling pitcher filters will taken back by January 2009.
A careful study revealed that the standard plastic cartridge of Brita can be further put to good use, lowering the probability of adding to the plastic waste problem and yet be surrendered for future use.
the campaign started a petition to urge Clorox to redesign its Brita filter cartridges so that the plastic housing can be refilled, rather than discarded, each time the filter is changed; provide a take-back program; and create a system for the cartridges to be dismantled and for the components to be recycled or reused domestically.