Places to Leave Your Water Bottle

Image of a Landfill

The simplest place to leave your bottle is a landfill. We realize humans don’t get to them as often us we roaches—we pity you. Still, you like what you like—we aren’t interested in changing you—we just want to cheer you on.

We’ve put together a short list of six great places you can use as disposal sites for your empty plastic water bottles. You’ve taken the trouble to avoid free tap water and even semi-free filtered tap water—don’t stop there. 1000 people, each tossing out 10 empty bottles a week for a year—that’s an amazing 500,000 bottles a year. Only 1000 people! Imagine how warm it will get if more than a thousand people drink bottled water.

Let’s face it human, if recycling was really going to really save your species—wouldn’t everyone be doing it?

Pitch it in a bay.

If you live close to a bay (or any water) use it for your personal water bottle “recycling” program.

Stow it in a dumpster.

Dumpsters feed landfills and landfills feed global warming. A dumpster is a perfect place for your empties.

Leave it behind.

when you leave the bus, train or station—leave your bottle. The cleaning people will trash it for you.

Hurl it in the hedges.

If you like to visit parks (and who doesn’t), give that bottle a good lob into the bushes and it will be out of sight and out of mind.

Drop it on the street.

They’ve got big machines to sweep the streets in most cities. Why waste time looking for a recycling bin.


The old reliable trash can.

They’re everywhere—this prime feeder of the landfill. When you toss trash into a can, it’s as though you’re acting responsibly, without changing a thing.

What brown alternatives to recycling plastic bottles can you come up with?

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