One year with my Klean Kanteen

Meet Harvey Dent.

One year ago yesterday I purchased this 12oz classic Klean Kanteen with stainless steel lid. I probably have used it every day since then.

I don't like promoting brands, especially without compensation, but I'll make an exception here (unless you want to send me some product Klean Kanteen! Call me!). I am convinced that these guys make the best, easiest to clean bottle with an all stainless environment (excluding replaceable silicone o-ring on lid) for your liquids. All others just don't, um, hold water.

No commercial bottled water for me. No plastic to recycle. 

No plastic water bottles for me. Plastic is either hard to clean or will break when dropped. And if your plastic bottle survives for decades are you sure you want to drink out of it? 

Glass bottles? Shatters. 

Titanium? Yes please! Just make sure you have a titanium lid and I will buy it. As soon as this one wears out.

My bottle just dents. Will I ever break it or wear it out? We will see. One year down, a lifetime to go.

Trashed

We rented Trashed a few days ago.

It is a documentary hosted by Jeremy Irons (Scar from the Lion King). It shows and describes (in an English accent) in gruesome and vivid detail the awful effects our trash has on the environment and our health. 

From the documentary it looks like most of the trash is plastic bags and plastic bottles. Just because it's recyclable doesn't mean it gets recycled.

Don't use it in the first place.

Do you think you're doing enough? You're not.

Stop using plastic bottles. Get a stainless steel bottle with a stainless steel top instead.

Enough with the plastic bags. Use a reusable bag instead. 

Stop buying junk that doesn't last and that will have to be thrown away or recycled. And certainly don't give me junk.

And yes, recycle what can be recycled.

There is an alternative to all this trash.

All it takes is money, thought, creativity and effort.

We are going to step it up. How about you?