——————————————————–
Dimensions of bottle: (Approximation)
Circumference: 21cm
Height: 20.4cm
Diameter: 6.7cm
Volume: 500 ml
Cap Diameter: 3cm
Cap Circumference: 9.4cm
——————————————————–
=============================================
~Trip to Singapore Mint~
On the 26 of may, i went to the Singapore MInt to do some research on coins and other products produced by them. through the explaination of the officer over there, i have a deeper understanding on what is really happening in there. I also learn how the coins are being recycled.
There are actually two series of coins in singapore, the first series was the Marine series which has printing of marine animals on coins. The second series are the ones that we are more familiar with, which is the Floral series. Just by counting the amount of Floral series, the are around three billion of coins in Singapore being use and pass down to the next person. This also means that one family could have own around seven hundred coins!
The huge amount of coins having by a family is due to the inappropriate method many Singaporeans use the coins.
Firstly, consumer uses notes to pay for purchases, and they get back some coins as change. They will then bring thse coins they get home and just by being lazy to bring large amounts of coins out, they leave their coins at home and as time passes, coins are being accumulate at home of peoples without knowing. Not only that, some merchants also does not like to recieve too much coins by consumers when they purchases.
I also found out that the banks charges the public when they store their money into the bank using coins as they prefer to work with notes which they think is easier for then to calculate. But they do have a certain days where they do not charge extra fees when the public deposit their account with coins, but the public still think is troublesome as different banks have different days.
By making new coins is a very troublesome process and environmental unfriendly due to the materials needed. When new coins have to be made, metal is needed, that will cause the want for metal to increase, which causes the price of metal to increase. The melting and forming process of the coins, where huge amout of electricity is needed to run the machines. Next, the packaging of coins together, where they uses paprer to pack coins in row of around 20 coins together and all these actions will highly affect the life of everyone and most sacrifices are on the miners, as we know that mining is highly life risking.
You may think, how can we help to avoid the harmful affects cause by making of new coins? Actually its very easy, we just need to bring our coins out with us, before we step our of our house, therefore widespread the use of coins, and reuse, reduce the amount of coins needed.
Through the recycling process of coins, where the Singapore Mint collect back all the coins gotten by the coin deposit machine daily and coins collected are being sent back to the Singapore Mint. The coins are then check by workers, to see if the coins are damaged or dirty, that need to be melt or clean up, those coins are being seperate out. The coins are then being packaged up and send to the banks, and merchants have to go to the bank to purchase coins where cant be get from other places.
The coin deposit machine in Singapore is considered as the first in the South East Asia to collect coins back from the public and the amount of money they stored into the machine will be directly transfer to their bank accounts, saving the trouble for public to get back the money. the coin deposit machines at the Singapore Mint charges by every thousand coins, while in banks, they charge by every hundred coins.
There are ways, where people are encourage to use to pay for their purchases, it is by using cashless transections, like E-zlink, bank, GIRO, credit card, etc. The Singapore MInt also uses the old series of coins, which is the marine series coins to reform and make into new coins.
=============================================
Just passed by this stunning article-
Essential Truths About Water
- One out of six people in the world has no dependable, safe drinking water.
- And in Fiji, a state-of-the-art factory spins out more than a million bottles a day of the hippest bottled water on the U.S. market today, while more than half the people in Fiji do not have safe, reliable drinking water. Which means it is easier for the typical American in Beverly Hills or Baltimore to get a drink of safe, pure, refreshing Fiji water than it is for most people in Fiji.
- In San Francisco, the municipal water comes from inside Yosemite National Park. It’s so good the EPA doesn’t require San Francisco to filter it. If you bought and drank a bottle of Evian, you could refill that bottle once a day for 10 years, 5 months, and 21 days with San Francisco tap water before that water would cost $1.35. Put another way, if the water we use at home cost what even cheap bottled water costs, our monthly water bills would run $9,000.
- We’re moving 1 billion bottles of water around a week in ships, trains, and trucks in the United States alone. That’s a weekly convoy equivalent to 37,800 18-wheelers delivering water. (Water weighs 81/3 pounds a gallon. It’s so heavy you can’t fill an 18-wheeler with bottled water–you have to leave empty space.)
- The Fiji Water plant is a state-of-the-art facility that runs 24 hours a day. That means it requires an uninterrupted supply of electricity–something the local utility structure cannot support. So the factory supplies its own electricity, with three big generators running on diesel fuel. The water may come from “one of the last pristine ecosystems on earth,” as some of the labels say, but out back of the bottling plant is a less pristine ecosystem veiled with a diesel haze.
- Americans went through about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year, 167 for each person. Durable, lightweight containers manufactured just to be discarded. Water bottles are made of totally recyclable polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic, so we share responsibility for their impact: Our recycling rate for PET is only 23%, which means we pitch into landfills 38 billion water bottles a year–more than $1 billion worth of plastic.
From flickr.com/photos/wespionage/765209458/
———————————————————-
===============================================
Other Alternative to Plastic Bottles
Glass bottles:
One of the alternative will be glass bottles as it the best choice not only for you, but for your family and for our world
Why do we recommend Glass bottles?
The Green Guide, The International Plastics Task Force, Environment California, and many doctors and scientists suggest that glass is your safest and healthiest choice for food and beverage storage. Glass is made from non-toxic, raw materials (e.g., sand, soda ash, limestone) and can be recycled over and over with no loss in quality or purity
Avoiding Plastic Benefits the Environment
By avoiding the use of plastic,Non-reusable water bottles, we can
Greatly reduce the amount of chemical
In the environment,
Waste in our landfills, and even global warming
Why do we insist of not using plastic/polycarbonate bottles?
Plastic is most likely to harbor bacteria
The scratches that can occur in plastic bottles may harbor harmful bacteria, even after cleaning
Manufacturing plastic bottles produce more environmental toxic
Manufacturing a plastic bottle emits more than 100 times the toxins into our air and water than making a glass bottle of the same size
Bisphenol A (BPA) which is usually found In reusable plastic/poly carbonate bottles Pollute our world
More than 6.4 billion pounds of BPA is produced annually worldwide (EPA, 2006). It has been found to pollute rivers, estuaries, sediment, house dust, and air
Facts
In the U.S., more than 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away each day “about 22 billion per year. In California, more than 1 billion plastic water bottles end up in the trash each. Supplying Americans with plastic water bottles for one year consumes more than 47 million gallons of oil, adding 1 billion pounds of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere which contribute to Global Warming
