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McSpud

gunsandbanjos wrote: »

Cant remember the exact brand of water, think it may be Evian? Anyway, on the back of the bottle it says that the bottle is only designed to hold evian water and shouldnt be refilled:rotfl:

There's a valid reason for this. Plastics have to be tested for contact with foodstuffs so if a bottle is to be used with acidic or oily foods they undergo additional testing to that which is required for contact with water only. That said I doubt it's tested with Evian water, it'll be laboratory distilled water.

LittleRedDragon

On a related note - someone on another forum I read said her gas man told her it was cheaper to keep the heating on all the time than turn it off then on again, as it takes more energy to heat a cold house... but surely this is nonsense?

dodo

LittleRedDragon wrote: »

On a related note - someone on another forum I read said her gas man told her it was cheaper to keep the heating on all the time than turn it off then on again, as it takes more energy to heat a cold house... but surely this is nonsense?

I've heard this one before but didn't believe it until I moved to present home. We find that in an old building with solid stone walls, it takes a long time to warm it up from cold. So we leave some heating on when we go out and just increase it when we come in. The solid walls seem to hold the heat much better once they get some heat into them and it seems to be cheaper on power.
Be interesting to hear what any experts might say.

Waste_not...

Flippin' heck, there isn't half a lot of garbage written on this site sometimes!

Re plastic water bottles: Plastic water bottles are fine to reuse by filling with tap water, as long as you clean them properly. The only thing that bacteria could grow are the remnants from your saliva.
It's not recommended to fill them with anything other than water though, as acidic foods, eg fruit juice, may encourage plasticisers to leach out.
And I hate to be the one to break the news to you all, but a great deal of your tap water is delivered via plastic pipes. I know this because it's my job to put them in the ground!

megsykins

LittleRedDragon wrote: »

On a related note - someone on another forum I read said her gas man told her it was cheaper to keep the heating on all the time than turn it off then on again, as it takes more energy to heat a cold house... but surely this is nonsense?

Similarly, I've been told that in a continually-used area it's better to leave the light always on than flick on / off - esp flourescent tubes as they require a burst of initial energy.
Also, when driving, if you're going over 80km/ph it's more fuel efficient to have the air-con on than windows down as it causes drag.

Caroline2CV

Chevalier - Welcome

1. In the Print menu select the 'Preferences' box and click on 'Fast Draft'
(this uses 1/2 the ink and my Hewlett Packard still give me good quality print)

2. Check the website for replacement and order but do not put in printer until you have exhausted the current cartridge.
(I use www.choicestationery.com as they have a freephone No and may give you £1 off your written order with cheque and cartidge - you have to check their website to see if they do recycle your cartidge)

3. Recyle old cartridge (freepost bags for St Thomas's childrens Hospital) via www.eachonecounts.co.uk/tommys

jonthedog

jenniewb wrote: »

Next there is the refilling of bottles: its fine to a point, this is, just as what has already been stated, because there are things in the plastic which over time, will leak into the water- and also this ties in with the above reason that bottles have a sell by date (as a result of the chemicals in the plastic of the bottle leaking into the water and thus makeing the water unsafe). You could probably get away with refilling a few times (and I really do mean a few, like 4 times or so) before you have to really think about the air contaminating the plastic in the bottle and affecting the quality of the water.

I was under the impression that chemical leaching was caused by the combination of the chlorine in tap water and warmth...nothing to do with the amount of times you re-fill something. A bottle that has been re-filled once and left exposed in a car to get hot will degrade far more chemicals into the contained water than one that had been refilled 100 times with fresh, cold water. Re-use bottles as many times as you want, but just don't leave them exposed or old water in them for too long, or you will taste the difference!

pokey

Hi.

Re-ink cartridges - you should not throw them away, but get them re-filled I do at my local "cartridge world". If you dont run them dry they can be re-filled for half the cost of a replacement.

Also get a printer with seperate colour ink tanks (mine is a canon IP3000) they hold more ink and last longer.

All the best.

Pokey.
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Chevalier wrote: »

The worst offenders I've found are print cartridge manufacturers.

My printer displays an 'ink guide' to show how much ink is remaining - and the amount is always hopelessly inaccurate. The first time I saw my black ink cartridge was showing empty I dutifully changed it, because I'd a long print run to do and didn't want to risk printing 20 pages of nothing if it ran out in the middle.

The second time I hadn't got a new cartridge, and simply let it run. I finally got 110 more pages out of that cartridge, and realized how much I'd thrown away last time... :mad:

Even then, the printer kept flashing doom-laden alarms of 'Ink Low' all the way through. It's a conspiracy...

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horse54101

re printer ink. I gave also found that if I switch my printer off then on again, it stops telling me ink is low until it really is low!!! Works for ages afterwards. However I have also bought these generic ink cartridges but have never been happy with the results. My other half reckons that with the price of ink we'd be better off buying a new printer each time, they sell the printers cheap with ink ready to go, then the refills cost a fortune (yes I do nag him about his carbon footprint!!)

CarlaKoala_2

Water bottles - do not leave in the car. Research has shown that exposure to sunlight releases chemicals from the plastic that cause breast cancer. And people have been diagnosed on that basis - cheryl crow puts down her breast cancer to drinking from bottles left in tour busses I believe.