Tonight's CBS Evening News Reporter Request!

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Permalink Reply by Nicole Shariat on July 8, 2009 at 3:35pm

I think it is great that CBS is doing a feature on this. Phthalates are found in plastics and our personal care products and they act as endocrine disruptors. Expecting and new moms should be particularly aware of this as the rise in phthalate exposure has led to a rise in fetal health risks.
Wikipedia has a great post on endocrine disruptors.
This site also has a few recent articles from NY Times and MSN www.ninenaturals.com/resources

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Permalink Reply by Paula Cowan on July 8, 2009 at 5:05pm

Kelly,

Thanx so much for making this a topic. I have for many years now used a water purification system in my home and carry my water with me. Bottled water is a threat for many reasons, including the recycling issue. The more this subject is propelled into mainstream conversations and as people become knowledgeable, we should see a distinct drop in the use of bottled water. But alternative means must also be accessible by the masses for any real change to take place. How do we make the alternatives affordable and easily incorporated into daily lifestyles?

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Permalink Reply by Renegade Mom on July 8, 2009 at 5:26pm

This is what we sent:

Ms. Wallace,

We stopped buying water sold in plastic bottles years ago, when we learned that plastic is a petroleum product. Not only were we worried about toxins leaching into our drinking water when the bottle lays around the floor of our mamma-vans for weeks (or months as our case usually can be) before being picked by a renegade toddler, but we were pissed when we heard about the REAL environmental impact of plastic bottles. For America alone, making plastic water bottles uses 17 million gallons of oil annually, not to mention the petroleum used to transport empty bottles to their filling destination, then transported to their consumption destination. THEN we either throw them in landfill (and we all know the effects of that) or we think we're being green by recycling them. What really happens to that plastic bottle next is it then gets put onto another petroleum powered ship to Asia (who currently purchases Americas recyclables) where the plastic is re-used to make more product that is then shipped ONCE AGAIN back to America for consumption, basically buying the plastic back from ourselves and wasting millions of gallons of petroleum in shipping alone.

Renegade Moms don't drink from plastic bottles and neither do their kids. STAINLESS STEEL REFILLABLE BOTTLES!! There's nothing wrong with tap water in most parts of this country, and if you're really that worried about it, you can filter it yourself, cheaply, without petroleum and in most cases, getting a better product than what you're buying at sporting events etc.

Get off the bottle.


~The Renegade Moms

http://renegademomconfessions.wordpress.com

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Permalink Reply by Dawn Noe Matthews on July 8, 2009 at 5:26pm

Thank you for the info. I have forwarded the info on FB and tweeted also. I am going to e-mail Kelly Wallace also.

Thanks.

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Permalink Reply by Coach Jen on July 8, 2009 at 5:44pm

GREETINGS FROM THE FRESH WATER STATE OF MONTANA! I replied (probably too late) to the notice, but would love to share with you some more about the topic.

My kids' choir (The Coyote Choir) were led by an awesome musician, Amy Martin, who is the community music director of the YMCA. Their campaign, along with with a local water company named Mountain Water Company, banned together to start a campaign called:

KICK THE BOTTLE-HIT THE TAP!

The kids in the choir, led by Amy, wrote a song and sold Stainless Steel water bottles to try to raise education regarding plastic water bottles. The project also brought in $3 per every water bottle to a Project called "WATER FOR PEOPLE", which is a worldwide organization that brings clean drinking water to communities worldwide. The choir has to date sold close to 500 stainless steel bottles!!


Check out the article written in the Mountain Water Company magazine about these amazing kids and the grassroot effort to educate and help people make informed decisions regarding plastic water bottles!
I hope you enjoy. As a mommy of 2 of the kiddos in the choir, I was very proud and very grateful that they were able to participate in this project. We are much more conciencious now...as my kids WILL NOT allow the plastic bottles to be bought:)

http://mtnwater.com/attachments/newsletterfeb09color.pdf


The newsletter says it all!!
Hope the word gets out....this is such a beneficial project that could go beyond our mountains of Montana!!!! Would love to see other local water companies follow in the footsteps of my homestate!
Best!

Jen

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Permalink Reply by doula6angelita on July 8, 2009 at 7:39pm

Well, even though I am too late to make an official CBS news comment, my feeling is better safe than sorry. I stopped using bottled water because there seemed to be too many issues, too many conflicting theories as to the safety of using it.
Now, i boil my water, use fresh flowing water with a filter and have invested in charcoal filters. It is extra work, but pollution and cancer are well worth avoiding.

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth Sedway on July 8, 2009 at 10:14pm

Thanks for the information!

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Permalink Reply by Coach Jen on July 9, 2009 at 6:38am

Hi all!
Great job Sarah....well done! I did watch the segment and I also replied on FB. I think they just hit the tip of the iceburg here. The content was good but plastic water bottle MISUSE goes so far beyond just the individual health concerns.....
What about our environment?
The waste?
The cost of production?
The concerns about plastic being dumped in the landfill?

I would love twitter moms to continue to draw attention to this very important issue. There needs to be more education all around. I feel so passionate about this because my kids are too.
You can see my earlier link, or read this article about my community and how they started a grassroots effort to raise awareness through our local water company and the community music program at our local YMCA.

http://mtnwater.com/attachments/newsletterfeb09color.pdf

This very important issue needs to reach way beyond my side of the mountain.
Good job, mamas!
Best,
Jen Slayden

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Permalink Reply by Kim on July 9, 2009 at 8:02am

I guess I'm in the minority here. We have some BPA free Camelback bottles that we use when we can (we get the big 5 gallon bottles of Ozarka delivered....tap water is nasty. I've never tasted good tasting tap water), but if we're out and about we buy bottled water.

My thought is that every other day something else causes cancer or something else is slowly killing us. Yea....it's called life that is slowly killing us. Yea, there are some things that have been honestly proven, such as smoking and liver damage from alcohol, but there are so many unproven claims, or claims that have very very small percentages to back them up, that if we avoided everything that had ever been reported to cause some sort of ailment, we might as well live naked in a bubble in a basement, never leaving the house.

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Wallace on July 9, 2009 at 8:04am

Hi all,
This is Kelly Wallace from CBS News. I just wanted to thank everyone who responded yesterday to Megan's RAMBO alert. We received more than a hundred emails in a span of a few hours which blew me away. Unfortunately, I couldn't respond to everyone but we did include Sarah Walton and comments from a few other moms who emailed us. My heartfelt thanks for your help. Once again, I'm blown away by the power of moms! Please feel free to keep me in mind if you come across other stories which you think would be perfect for CBS News. We really appreciate all the input. Thanks again for the help and my apologies for not being able to get in touch with each of you personally.
All my best,
Kelly Wallace
Correspondent/CBS News
wallacek@cbsnews.com

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Judge on July 11, 2009 at 12:10pm

OMG, my friend told me about this, after I told her I had a 6pk in the trunk of my car. My husband also tole me we couldn't freeze our water bottles anymore for the same reason. So, is it safe for the water to sit on the store shelf's, I guess that doesn't get as hot as it was in the trunk of my car? Please keep us updated on this.

Thank you,
Michelle Judge

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Permalink Reply by Lane Chandler on July 14, 2009 at 10:23am

Health Canada has some great information about bottled water regulations and its safety. Visit:

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/food-aliment/bottled-embouteil...
and
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/securit/packag-emball/bpa/bpa_survey-s...

Not a chance I would serve tap water and all the chemicals added to my children!

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