Today’s Solutions: April 03, 2025

In January, the city of ­Concord, Massachusetts, banned the single-use plastic water bottle. Here’s a tip for the pioneers in Concord and all of you who don’t like how many resources are used to make that water bottle you trash so soon after you buy it: Replace it with this fancy bottle called the Dopper. Whereas it takes almost a gallon of water to produce the ­average single-use ­plastic water bottle, ­production of the Dopper only needs 0.004 gallons. | E.B. | $16.25 per Dopper | Find out more: dopper.com

 

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