Comments on: The Water in a Bottle of Water

By: anshuman

anshuman — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:46 +0000

Excellent observation that we all share but never bother about to even consider it as a problem.

By: James

James — Tue, 12 May 2009 10:18:00 +0000

My understanding with the bottles being thin, was that it is easy for the user to crush it after user, thereby trying to reduce the counterfeit in the market. I think Tata's Himalaya water bottle also is pretty thin, but definitely better than that of Bisleri.

By: Biswajit Jena

Biswajit Jena — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:25:53 +0000

I agree to your deduction in someway. However, I dont think the margin is somewhat directly related to the amount of plastic used in the bottle. I would say the food grade plastic quality is the one to blame. Not that, if you increase the amount of plastic used in the bottle will not solve the problem. It would also drive the cost upwards. But I believe, the companies are just buying lower quality plastic.

By: ila

ila — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:56:07 +0000

Basab, none of the companies use virgin plastic for water bottles. Each of them use recycled materials. There's a whole industry out there that collects ONLY water bottles and sends it to a recycler. and incidentally, there's a 16 rupee gap between virgin and recycled plastic in india so indeed it is about bisleri's margins.____

By: Kelpie

Kelpie — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:39:37 +0000

There is huge amount of stuff on the bottles used by many of the 'mineral' water companies in India. Something that Coke and others tried to beat into the market. What I found worse was that you had to screw the damn cap off hard, in doing so much of your palms nicely wiped itself on the bottle mouth. . . making the exercise in purity useless!
Folks, talking about packaging, I must confess the 'best' is Amul Cheese! Try and get the damn foil off as quickly as you can without any cheese in your nails and broken away. . . write to me if you do well!

By: Basab Pradhan

Basab Pradhan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:29:59 +0000

My experience is with Bisleri bottles but it is possible that other brands might not exhibit the same behaviour.

By: dex

dex — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:14:09 +0000

yes, this is much more important that the fact that ground water is being depleted because of the heavy intake of the bottling companies. also you forgot to mention about the awkward click sound it makes when you open the bottle. they should put some music in there!

By: Indian

Indian — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:33:58 +0000

I disagree with the observations. Looks like you used those low quality mineral water that is available in railway stations. Check out the Aquafine, Kinley, Bisleri watter bottles. Some of them are even better than the ones in US!