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Margaret Teich

April 2, 2009

Is Boxed Water Better?

by Margaret Teich

boxed water, water packaging, boxed beverages, product packaging, is boxed water better michigan, sustainable design, green design, products, recycled materials

Only 14% of plastic water bottles are recycled, and Americans add 30 million PET water bottles to landfills every day! Aiming to provide an alternative to this alarming trend, Michigan-based Boxed Water Is Better is filling FSC-certified Tetra Pak boxes with Minnesota water and in doing so, giving us a new way to tote H20. But is boxed water truly the best option, or are there more ecologically-sound alternatives at hand?

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