We live out in the country, in an area where our drinking water needs filtering from various muds and murk. We use the handy (but expensive-seeming, for our monthly budget) replaceable-cartridge water filters from PUR. (Short commercial: They do a pretty good job.)
Thing is, the size and heft of these things always snags attention: more than 4 inches long, 2.5 across, 4-point-8 ounces -- more, when they're filled with water, dead, and on their way to the landfill.
The gnawing consideration always asserts itself: We are drinking better water, but we are contributing to the explosion of landfills bursting beyond their planned, and revised, sizes. So, PUR was sent the concern -- thanks for making the filters, but we're making a very poor and ironic environmental trade in this process: Clean up one element of Nature that then trashes another? Zero sum gain, or worse, right, PUR?
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