Compostable all-natural water filters

Re:Compostable all-natural water filters by mhp on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @05:52PM (#4873781)

I think the design is great, and from a business perspective I like their desire to do it on a subscription basis (like Proactiv for example). As a consumer, that annoys me a bit, but I guess they'll see how it turns out.

HOWEVER, the United States has pretty awesome water coming right out of the tap. And charcoal based filters are mostly taste filters. They aren't going to remove most pollutants (you'd need a reverse osmosis filter for that). It's an aside to this product discussion, but I really don't know how we've been duped into buying products that support a whole industry of bottled water and water purification. I say that as I look at my dumb brita filter on the counter...

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Re:Compostable all-natural water filters by wooster on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @06:29PM (#4873946)

"lead, mercury and arsenic"

As the manufacturer of this product you're going to want to be very careful making claims like that in a public forum.

I see no evidence of CDPH certification, despite the product being sold from San Francisco:

  When a manufacturer claims that a drinking water treatment device
  will reduce contaminants [such as lead, Cryptosporidium (protozoan
  cysts), pesticides, herbicides, solvents, heavy metals, bacteria
  and viruses] or makes other health related performance claims,
  the device must be certified by CDPH, pursuant to Health & Safety
  Code Section 116830.

http://www.cdph.ca.gov/certlic/device/pages/watertreatmentde...

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Re:Compostable all-natural water filters by 001sky on Tuesday December 04, 2012 @06:16PM (#4873891)

pitcher is made of lead free glass and the reservoir is BPA free

-- This is pretty much standard, not really a USP

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