Comments on: Recyclable Y Water Bottles by Designer Yves Béhar

By: Carin

Carin — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:27:21 +0000

While I appreciate Hyla’s concern with plastic, in our commercial world products will always be packaged and I am a keen advocator of creating packaging that is multi-use as opposed to single use. And, hey, maybe some of those spoilt kids who “get bored and it ends in the garbage”, can package them up and send them to an orphanage (Africa has many of those) and provide motor skill development to some underprivileged kids who don’t get new toys when they’re bored.

By: christy

christy — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 15:36:46 +0000

I saw these at Whole Foods and thought,although a fun design, that they were expensive and wasteful. Our kids drink filtered water from their Kleen Kanteens. I am weary of vitamins in water and prefer to get them from our whole, fresh and organic foods we eat at home!

By: Diana

Diana — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:16:37 +0000

Hyla,

while your blog might have some good information in it, I read Inhabitat and Inhabitot because it is updated so frequently; Also, the F-bomb is dropped on your blog a few times making it less than friendly for some. Also, Inhabitat does not make judgement calls or share their opinions, they merely present all the facts and allow reading to make informed opinions and decisions. I think many informed readers would prefer to do that rather than have someone create opinions for them.

By: Hyla

Hyla — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:03:37 +0000

That may be. In the end when the children get bored with the product it will still end up in the garbage.

By: Abigail Doan

Abigail Doan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:48:21 +0000

Dear Hyla,

We are not advocating plastics as an ideal green material. What we are interested in highlighting with this specific product review is the quest for better models for repurposing packaging material and beverage containers. It is our hope to introduce readers to the full gamut of new design offerings with both pros and cons in the lifecycle. Defining sustainable design is an ongoing process, and I felt that it was important to introduced Y Water on our site as a way to further push this dialogue. It was really more about being informed in the end.

Thanks for reading and congratulations on your informative blog,

Abigail @ Inhabitots

By: Hyla

Hyla — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:19:00 +0000

May be creative………but it is PLASTIC, creating plastic HARMS THE EARTH! from the pellet size plastic at the beginning of the product to the broken down plastic that ends up in the ocean and back into our food supply or choking animals.

Not to mention it is PLASTIC it leaches Bisphenol A into our bodies and promotes early hormone growth in our children.

Is this really the future you want?? Why are you even writing this blog? I thought this blog was about helping the earth and going green, but I keep seeing you guys promote plastic.

Maybe your readers should head over to my blog if they really want to get educated.

http://earthyfinds.blogspot.com