We’re pretty diligent at home about water bottles. We don’t buy bottled water anymore — the waste is atrocious. Plus, why carry all that water up four flights of stairs? This alone is a great “living in an apartment” tip – water is delivered to your house already! It comes out of the kitchen and bathroom taps!

A year or so ago we bought a soda maker, since we like to drink seltzer water. We have four one-liter bottles we re-fill from our Brita pitcher. We also have about 5 or 6 water bottles of various kinds, that are also filled from the Brita pitcher, and kept in the fridge so we can grab a bottle whenever we want. Works pretty well and we’re happy with the reduced waste.

Then I get this “bite of the day” from www.idealbite.com, which is a pretty fun site providing a tip a day on easy ways to be more environmentally friendly in your daily life. For the past week or so, it’s been all about babies and crap, making me concerned that one of the people who runs the site was pregnant and the site would turn into a “baby and me” site about how children are the future… blah blah blah.

Proving that I desperately need sites like idealbite, I’ve been spending the past couple years happily refilling my resuable bottles–and tossing the Brita filters into the trash when they’re depleted. Duh. Anyway, Brita does not recycle the filters at this point. So the tip of the day is to petition Brita to do so. They’re asking you to sign the petition, and to send them your used Brita filters, which will one day be delivered, along with everyone else’s filters, to the Chlorox Company, which owns Brita. I think that’s a great idea.

So I’m posting this here for my thousands of readers (haha) to do this as well.