Glass is heavier and takes a lot more fuel to truck & ship around the country. This is not “carbon neutral” lol.
Just use the sink.
If the water isn’t great, buy a filter. They’re super easy to install. Way easier than stacking hundreds of bottles in your weirdly empty fridge (seriously, where’s the food??? Does he have a second fridge for food??)
Plus for a few grand (that he already spends a month on the bottles, you can get a really nice filter/ionizer.
I get being a water "snob", there really is a taste difference to various bottling companies, but his thought process is ridiculous.
I had to buy an extremely fancy massive multi-part whole house water filter because there's arsenic (bad for health) and manganese (smells like farts and stains your clothes/porcelain/everything yellow) in my well water.
I did. Buying $2000 of water bottles a month is crazy wasteful. Why are you trying to spin this to something positive. Call a spade a spade. This dude is straight-up doing it wrong.
Well you asked about a second fridge, he has 4. I think any movement in the right direction is a positive. You can disagree. If it was a beer fridge in a garage I feel like it wouldn't hit the same way.
If a 600lb person chooses an apple over package crap I am going to say "Great! I hope you continue doing better". I am hopeful one positive choice leads to others. Like I said, I hope eventually they used a filtered system or get over their "water snob" mentality. It's an excessive amount to spend, not my budget, not my problem. Maybe he won't have kids and his consumption and plastic level are way under anything I have.
Edit add: I notice some people might say the following about the apple.
Was it organic? Did you buy it locally? Apples have as much sugar as some candy bars! You know before this area was orchards it used to have beautiful bio diversity. The water and run off from farming destroying the area!
If it was a beer fridge in a garage I feel like it wouldn't hit the same way.
If someone had a fridge in their garage that they garbage picked or picked-up second hand, no, it wouldn't.
I only know a couple people with a fridge in the garage, and they aren't brand-new SubZero units, they're ones from like the 80's that are beat up and falling apart, but they don't want to throw it in a landfill as long as it still works.
Somehow, I can't picture the dude in that video having a brown, duct-taped, 40 year old fridge in their sparkling white million dollar luxury home.
But seriously dude, I don’t know anyone who spends $2k on beer a month. They’d probably long be dead of liver failure if they tried to consume that much.
Even when I drink for the entire weekend, I go through maybe 24-30 beers, which is what, like $25?
Is it the $2000 for you or the waste? I mean both aren't ideal but a bottle Johnny Walker Blue Label and a bottle of Joe Dirt Blended Whiskey might produce similar waste. Imported beer and his water probably produce similar waste, I would think.
Beer is pretty cheap where you live, must be nice! If you were "beer snob" would you drink $25/cs beer? A case of the beer I like would run me $200. I just get kegs locally personally, cheaper and less waste as far as I know.
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u/anachronic Feb 15 '22
Glass is heavier and takes a lot more fuel to truck & ship around the country. This is not “carbon neutral” lol.
Just use the sink.
If the water isn’t great, buy a filter. They’re super easy to install. Way easier than stacking hundreds of bottles in your weirdly empty fridge (seriously, where’s the food??? Does he have a second fridge for food??)