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by DannoHung 6314 days ago
I'm gonna start selling sealed, empty plastic bottles!

I'll call it: "Make your own bottled water"

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There are sports water bottles, even with filters, at discount prices. Less waste.

What a bizarre situation caused by consumerism.

If you can figure out a better filtration system than your competitors here: http://coffeetea.about.com/od/water/tp/waterbottles.htm -- you may have a more viable idea than you think.

Tucson's tap water is pretty bad. It's chlorinated mineral water combined with a highly mineral ground water. I drink brita at home, but it's a pain on the road. However, I drink the tap here. When I go to Phoenix, I have trouble even drinking the tap, it tastes so bad in areas.

"Bonus: Comes with FREE fresh air inside!"
You clearly fail at marketing bottled water:

"Bottled Air: Pure, fresh air from only organic sources."

These already exist! I was looking in the cleaning supplies the other day, and they sell empty normal-sized Windex-like bottles, along with a very small bottle of concentrate!
I'd buy them for, say, five cents each. Bottles are useful.
Make it six cents and I'll bet you can get as many bottles as you want.
Hah. 11c in MI and CA over 24oz.