Make your own soda and sparkling water
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Kori EllisPosted in products
On average, each person in the United States throws away over 670 cans and bottles each year. This adds up to billions of cubic feet of trash in landfills.
In 2006, according to the Container Recycling Institute, American consumers drank more than 200 billion bottles and cans worth of all beverages, including soda. That’s 50 billion more than in 1996. At the same time, recycling rates have plummeted from about 48 percent of all containers to just 33 percent in the last decade.
Soda-Club has developed a line of on-demand soda machines that eliminate cans and bottles all together. With the Soda-Club machine you can make a liter of soda, sparkling water or even energy drinks in about 30 seconds.
This is great for big families. While some people in your household may drink diet soda, others may want an energy drink. Everyone can make their choice without using cans, bottles or electricity. These home soda makers don’t use electricity or even batteries.
To use the machine, you simply fill the reusable Soda-Club carbonating bottle with tap or filtered water from your faucet, screw it into the machine, press the button, and you’ll have sparkling water in 30 seconds.
For soda, you just add a capful of the regular, diet or caffeine-free Soda-Club syrup of your choice. Sodamix flavor include cola, cream soda, lemon-lime, root beer, pink grapefruit and cranberry-raspberry. I recently tried the Soda-Club machine and the sodas are really great - particularly the diet soda, which seems to have less after taste than most of those in the stores.
One press of the machine creates a few light bubbles; several presses gives you as much fizz as you want. Special bottle caps are provided with hermetic seals to keep your beverage stay fizzy longer than the conventional soda.
Prices for Soda-Club starter kits begin under $100, which includes a seltzer/soda-making machine and related supplies. Soda-Club sodamix concentrate costs $3.99-4.99 for a bottle that sweetens the equivalent of 36 cans of soda.
For more information, visit sodaclub.com or call 1-800-SODACLUB.
