Have you ever tried to drink Los Angeles tap water? I guess you could filter it at home, but I can certainly see the appeal of bottled water. Recycle, people! It's no accident that when tap water is served at restaurants in LA, it's iced and has a lemon slice in it. As for this environmental problem, I don't get it. We fill up our recycling can weekly with water and wine bottles and soda cans. Presumably, they are not going to the landfills. About every 6 months we get one of these scare things about the landfills. Previously, it was disposable diapers filling the fills. Then it was garden clippings (we have a separate can for garden trimmings). Then, just to balance things out, they tell us our actual nonrecyclable garbage is filling the fills. That is what we have them for, isn't it?