The Sodastream products had struck my fancy for a few holiday seasons. Several blogs had been giving them away and unfortunately, I hadn’t won one yet. So, I was excited when the company agreed to be part of my Green Gift Giving series this season!
Sodastream’s products are a great addition to the home or office making green steps:
How Does SodaStream Help the Environment?
SodaStream is an “Active Green” product, meaning that consumers are actively reducing their CO2 footprint every time they make soda or sparkling water at home instead of buying it from the store. The more the system is used on a daily basis, the more CO2 footprint the user actively saves. (This differs from “Passive Green” products, which use green-friendly production processes, but their products are not inherently helping the consumers save on their daily footprint.)
Because SodaStream uses water straight from the tap, the system makes traditional store-bought beverage bottles obsolete. That means less plastic manufactured, less plastic waste is created, and fewer bottled beverages must be transported from manufacturers to distributors to stores to homes.
Globally, 206 billion liters of bottled water were consumed in 2008 (Zenith International Global Bottled Water Report, 2008). The energy required to make water bottles in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling Institute, 2002).
According to the US Recycling Institute, more than 80% of bottles in the US do not get recycled and end up in landfills. Also, an estimated 4.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions were produced in the process of replacing the 134 billion bottles and cans not recycled in 2005.Using your own home carbonation system means:
- Less packaging waste from cans and bottles.
- Less pollution caused by transport of bottled beverages.
One SodaStream carbonator makes 60 or 110 liters, equivalent to 170 or 310 aluminum cans! When empty, the carbonator is refilled and reused, ready to make more fizzy and tasty soda whenever you want it.
I was sent the Fountain Jet Starter Kit in black and silver to review. It came with 2 1 liter blottles, 1 carbonator, 6 flavored syrups from their regular and diet line, 2 of their Sparkling Naturals, and a 3 pack of MyWater Flavor Essence retail $99.95.
The Fountain Jet was super simple to get together, just insert the carbonator and you’re ready to go. No batteries, plugs or assembly required. The first and only problem with the product I had: when asked which flavors I wanted to try I mentioned that I am a Diet Coke Gal, so since I was the main reviewer be sure to include that. No Diet Cola syrup was included. Since I don’t really like any other soda I had to leave taste testing to the rest of the family. So far Root Beer has been the family hit, Orange falling close behind. My Mother-in-law really liked the Sparkling Naturals Apple Mango, we sent her home with a large glass and a stainless steel bottle full.
Now, I have found myself drinking something I HATED when I was younger… Seltzer Water. I haven’t tried any of the flavor essences, yet. It’s next on the list (when there is a spare bottle not filled with Root Beer), but I have a new found craving for seltzer and to be able to make it in seconds is really cool! My son took a swig of it (probably thought it was lemon-lime) I heard him gag! That’ll teach him to drink out of the bottle! How many times do I have to say it??
The guys in the house go through soda fast, so this is great. No running out of drinks, running to the store, we’re reducing waste from store bought sodas, too. This has many pros for sure! SodaStream is available at several retail locations and you can search for a location near you on the site. I’ll need to take a trip to a location near me to buy some of the diet cola, then I can start to really enjoy the SodaStream.
This will make a great green gift for the soda lover in your life. So why not try to win one? Yep, SodaStream is giving one of my readers a Fountain Jet to keep or give as a gift this holiday season!
Do as many of the below as you wish and leave a separate comment for each one:
- Visit Soda Stream or the Ms. Fizzy Blog and comment here on which flavor or drink recipe you would love to try if you won the Fountain Jet.
- Blog about this giveaway and link back to this post.
- Follow @sodastreamusa on Twitter or become a Fan on Facebook and comment that you did.
- Tweet this giveaway
- Stumble this giveaway
- Use other forms of social networking to spread the word about this giveaway.
- Subscribe to my feed to stay up to date with the latest from Eco-Office Gals.
- Buy anything from SodaStream and comment 5 times that you did! (I will confirm)
The deadline for entering is Monday, 11/22/10 at 8pm EST at which time one winner will be randomly chosen. Please don’t forget to leave a separate entry for each one of the above that you do and any entries that show obvious laziness i.e. a simple “Thanks for the great giveaway” will not be published therefore not counted. It’s just not fair for the people that do know how to follow simple directions. US residents only. Thanks!
(In compliance with the new FTC Guildlines, please note that this is a sponsored post. I was given these products to test and review free of charge. However, I was not paid for the review and the opinions are my own.)
Congrats…. um anonymous… at least you left an email 🙂
I would love to try the Pete’s choice and the orange.
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Anonymous says
I drink a lot of diet coke and I would like to try their diet cola and see how it compares.
Anonymous says
I’d go with Diet Orange
Anonymous says
I subscribed by email.
Anonymous says
I’d love to try the orange first.
Sarah L says
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amy d says
I would like the rootbeer
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altusbecky says
I want to try the root beer 🙂
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kathy pease says
id love to try the Fountain Mist 🙂
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Anonymous says
I follow sodastream on twitter as kmayans.
Anonymous says
i would like to try the diet root beer flavor.
Shaunda says
Follow Sodastream on Twitter
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Shaunda says
I would love to try Ginger ale.
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Betty C says
I subscribe with google reader.
Betty C says
Tweet – http://twitter.com/willitara/status/6803940901396480
Betty C says
I’m an email subscriber.
Betty C says
I’m a fan of SodaStream on Facebook.
Betty C says
I follow @sodastreamusa on Twitter as willitara.
Betty C says
I would get two flavors – root beer and cream soda.
Tylerpants says
I’m a subscriber
Tylerpants says
I would love to try the Sparkling Naturals – Orange Pineapple flavor!
Just me says
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Gala says
their fan on FB (gala ya)
Gala says
it would be interesting to try orange pineapple
john says
i’d like to try apple mango
Heather Marie says
I want to try the cream soda! Mmm
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Deb K says
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Deb K says
Diet Rootbeer sounds the best to me!
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tallcapp says
I would want this just to make up Seltzer Water, unflavored.
Susan says
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Susan says
I’d like to try the lemon lime
Susan says
I want to try the lemon lime
Anonymous says
I would love to try the orange suelee1998 @ gmail.com
Tracey Byram says
I’d like the ginger ale.
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Michelle Tucker says
I can’t wait to try the cream soda!
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Emma peel says
Im subscribed
Emmaspeel says
Lemon Lime!
Anonymous says
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Anonymous says
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Anonymous says
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Anonymous says
I want to try the ginger ale. Thanks for the contest.
Jnmacdonald says
I’d like to try cranberry raspberry.
Kowgirlsrule says
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Kowgirlsrule says
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Kowgirlsrule says
I would love to try the Cream Soda flavor
Hoa says
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Hoa says
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Mandatory
I’d love to try the Diet Pink Grapefruit flavor.
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Ohkeeka says
I subscribe to your blog via email
Ohkeeka says
I would love to try the Orange Pineapple flavor!
Grace45241 says
i’d love to try the root beer!
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jen twark says
i would like the apple mango jtwark@mail.com
Suzanne Lewis says
I’d like to try Diet Root Beer.
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i woul dlike the lemon lime intime@myself.com
jessica a says
i would like to try the ginger ale
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Lisa Huey says
i am following sodastream on twitter, and liked them on facebook!
Lisa Huey says
i checked out the sodastream site. the apple mango sparkling naturals flavor sounds awesome, i want to try that one now!
Anonymous says
feed subscriber
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added to my technorati favs
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soda stream Fan on Facebook
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Follow @sodastreamusa on Twitter
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Anonymous says
id love to try the diet root beer!
Eco-Office Gals says
Just put the feedburner form in it’s place, should work now. Thanks!
Crazyred61 says
I would like to try cola
Sharold says
I tried to join feedburner but it say
The feed does not have subscriptions by email enabled. Please let me know when it works so I can join.
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Sharold says
I follow soda stream on facebook.
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Sharold says
I like rootbeer so I would try that.
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Theresa D says
tweet
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Theresa D says
I follow sodastreamusa on twitter.(terri142)
Theresa D says
I would love to try the Lemon Iced Tea flavor.
Holly W. says
I’m an email subscriber!
Holly W. says
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Holly W. says
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Holly W. says
I would love to try the Cranberry Raspberry!
Monique Rizzo says
Id love to try Rootbeer.
Thanks for the chance.
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Daniel M says
lemon lime for me
MayhemMan27 says
I like root beer flavor best
Shawnna says
I would like to try orange and the root beer
chris says
like to try the cream soda
Herry123_us says
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Herry123_us says
I would like to try orange flavor.
Ronda says
I like SodaStream on Facebook.
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Ronda says
I subscribe to your feeds.
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Ronda says
I would love to try the Diet Cranberry Raspberry.
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Donna L says
I would like to try the cream soda.
jen says
someone in my household has a serious carbonated water addiction…we bought one of these and haven’t looked back. It is AWESOME!! good luck, everybody…
sandy says
root beer
BAnn Perez says
tweeted the giveaway…
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BAnn Perez says
Following @SodaStreamUSA
Kendraco22 says
follow soda stream twitter kendra22007 thanks
Scott Martin says
I would like to try the giner ale flavor.
THANKS!!! for the AWESOME!!! GIVEAWAY!!!
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Rhoneygtn says
I would like to try the ginger ale flavor.
Stephanie says
The flavor I’d like to try is orange! 🙂
Kendraco22 says
how fun!! want to try one of these !! apple mango sounds good–the kids would love this,thanks for the opp
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debbie says
I am a email subscriber.
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debbie says
I have wanted one of these since they first came out. I would like to try the diet pink grapefruit flavor.
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Kayla Fioravanti says
I was just looking at one of these — thanks for the info.
Anonymous says
I’d love grape.
Margaret Smith says
I’m a subscriber.
Thanks.
Margaret Smith says
I tweeted:http://twitter.com/peg42/status/5314808450646016
Thanks
Margaret Smith says
I Follow @sodastreamusa on Twitter (peg42) and Facebook (Margaret E. Smith)
Thanks again
Margaret Smith says
I’d really love to try the Diet Orange and the Diet Root Beer.
Thanks so much for this wonderful giveaway.
Slb3334 says
i like the cola
Anonymous says
Following Soda Stream on twitter; jashelep
Anonymous says
I would love to try the Pete’s choice and the orange.
Anonymous says
I subscribed to your email feed.
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I follow Soda Stream on Twitter @mami2jcn
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Anonymous says
I’d like to try the lemon lime flavor.
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