Hi Guys,

I am currently doing a project for my degree focusing on the environmental impacts of the bottled water industry.

If some of you could answer the questions below, and also put them to less environmentally aware friends and family (so the results are not biased) I would be very grateful.:help:

Many thanks

Kitgem

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?


Thank you for your time.

(P.S. Due to being computer illiterate I can’t work out how to post a proper graph questionnaire so please forgive me!) :dunce:

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
yes. monthly, i guess.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
i buy it for drinking at home and taking with me to class.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
my apartment building doesn't have recycling pick-up, so i save up all the bottles until i take them to whole foods and put them in their recycling thing.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
yes, if there is nowhere to recycle them, i keep them until i can.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
yes.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)? Weekly-12 24 ounce bottles one 5 gallon jug


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping? both (see above)


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State? no-we don't have a recycling program.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin? no


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres? yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)? No


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping? Socially


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State? Provided directly by my University with funding from a number of sources including the state.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin? If I am downtown I will throw them away in a public trash can, it is nearly guaranteed that it will be removed from the trash can and recycled (we have bottle deposits), if I am elsewhere I will save the bottle until I can recycle it.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres? Yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Never. I use fill my nalgene bottle at home.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
n/a


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes, but we can only recycle paper from our house.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
If I'm given a water bottle I throw it away when I am done.


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Hell yeah. Considering I don't buy bottled water.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Yes. Bi-Monthly. I re-use bottles and fill them up with the bottled culligan water system that we have at the house.


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
I drink water 24/7 with the exception of my morning cup of cappuccino.


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
No, not currently. I have put some thought into it though.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
No...

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Sure.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

Once or twice a month


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?


Socially I guess, I don't ever really purchace one unless I really need it.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

We don't have one, we recycle on our own.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

I recycle at home mostly, sometimes I recycle, if it's available.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

I'm American, but I would be willing to pay more for these, really.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Almost never.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Socially -- generally only if I find myself somewhere that doesn't have a drinking fountain/offer tap and I've forgotten my water bottle.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
All of our recycling is picked up the same day as our trash. :)

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
A lot of our shopping centers and public buildings already have them, but I think making them even more convenient would be beneficial, so yeah.

Thank you for your time.

(P.S. Due to being computer illiterate I can’t work out how to post a proper graph questionnaire so please forgive me!) :dunce:[/QUOTE]

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Never


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Never.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes. Provided by our village.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
I take them home as much as possible.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
n/a

Thank you for your time.
You are welcome.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)? yes, once every two weeks or so


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping? home consumption


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State? yes


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin? take them home


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres? yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
No, I don't.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
I don't do either. If I think I'm going to be out somewhere where I'll need water, I'll bring my own container with water.


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
Whichever is most convenient. if I see a recycling bin and I somehow have a bottle that I want to throw out, I'll put it in the bin.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
I think bottled water is over-priced anyway, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Yes, at least once a month; My husband and I go through eight gallon jugs quickly

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Both; Have water, will travel


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
I take them home. Period. When we were in DC and NYC a couple of weeks ago, I took bottles (and newspaper) from DC to NYC back home to Columbus.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Yes.



I hope this helps. Also, in terms of recycling, I'll reuse bottles until they get yucky. Some of the bottles I brought home I'm reusing now as the older ones got yucky.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

Mmmm I would say once a month. I re-use my water bottle, but if for any reason I lose it I will buy another.

2. Do you buy water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

mmm Perhaps socially, as It is when out and about that I may realise I have lost my water bottle.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

Absolutely!

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

Take them home.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

Absolutely! That would be great to see.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
No

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Socially - when I am out somewhere and thirsty


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
You mean bottle recycling? Or water recycling? Yes to bottle recycling. While there had been talk of initiating a council funded water recycling scheme into the area it still seems many years away.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
Take them home usually.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Some places already have these. I wouldn't mind paying a little extra to see them go in my local shopping centres though.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
Monthly

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Home

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
I refill them (gallon jugs) at Wild Oats or take them home (small bottles)

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Hell yeah.

Thank you for your time.

(P.S. Due to being computer illiterate I can’t work out how to post a proper graph questionnaire so please forgive me!) :dunce:[/QUOTE]

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
No

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
I very rarely buy bottled water but when I do it's socially.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Absolutely

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
If the nearest bin is a recycling bin, then I will throw it in that, otherwise I'll take it home for recycling.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

No. I buy it maybe twice a year.


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

When shopping or traveling.


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

Yes.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

Take home for recycling.


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

Yes.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

weekly

2. Do you buy water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

some for home, some for work

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

yes, there are city supplied recycling bins in the alley behind my apt. bldg

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

take them home. Otherwise they'd be thrown out.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

translated to cents, yes :nana:

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
No.


2. Do you buy water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
Socially.


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
Usually take them home; don't trust most public bins.


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Yes.

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

No, the most I would probably buy bottled water would be 2-3 times a year.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

If/when I do buy bottled water, it would be in social situations like shopping or trips, that is if I forget to or can't bring my own.


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

I'm not exactly sure what the question means, but I guess yes, we do recycle.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin? Mostly take them home to be recycled.


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres? Yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

I buy a 1.5L bottle every couple of months to use. I drink a lot of water,
and the wide-mouth Aquafina bottle is handier than anything else I've found for refilling and keeping with me all day. After a while I recycle / downcycle and get a new one because of the difficulty of cleaning thoroughly.

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

For years I bought filtered water from co-ops, etc. in my own large refillable containers, then I had well water to drink and got out of the habit.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

Yes.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

I take all recyclables home with me unless I see an opportunity to recycle them when I'm out. I'm guessing that by 'nearest bin' you mean what in the US we call a garbage can or trash can, etc?

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

Absolutely. I routinely pay more for products packaged in glass than the plastic-packaged alternatives, as glass can be recycled where plastics are downcycled, if not burned.

Thank you all for replying. You have been a great help:up:

Kitgem

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?
1 case per week

2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?
For Home

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?
Yes

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?
In general, I take them to the area recycling center

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?
Yes

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)?

Yes - whenever I run out. Monthly perhaps.


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping?

Mostly to drink while at work. I reuse the bottles and fill it from the water cooler.

3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State?

Yes.

4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin?

Home.

5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres?

No.


ETA: I guess I should have read through the whole post. It was bumped up, after the project was over. :(

1.Do you buy bottled water regularly? If so how often (daily weekly, monthly)? no, it's expensive


2. Do you but water more often for home consumption or socially e.g. when out shopping? only if i am out and there is no other option (like no bubblers an such)


3. Does your household regularly use a recycling scheme provided for by the council/ the State? we recycle but neither the town or the state really have anything to do with it. so i guess the answer to your question is no.


4. Do you take plastic bottles home to be recycled or put them in the nearest bin? sometimes i reuse bottles. if i'm at home and i am taking the drink with me i will recycle it at home (like if i am drinking it on the drive home etc). if there is a recycling bin nearby i will use it.


5. Would you be willing to pay a few pence extra for the water to fund a more convenient industry-sponsored recycling system such as plastics-only bins located in shopping centres? if i bought water then i guess so.