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Paper containers cause environmental problems as well, including deforestation and toxic chemicals used to turn wood pulp based paper products white.
Of course once we can grow hemp for fiber, we can at least stop worrying about cutting down trees to make paper. Hemp fiber makes a much higher quality paper anyway. It's what the Declaration of Independence is printed on.
It's a strange thing to me that SF is trying (and Concord, Mass already did) to ban water bottles yet there is no mention of them banning the umpteen other kinds of drinks sold in plastic bottles. I've heard all the numbers on how many water bottles end up in the wrong places but they rarely give the numbers for other plastic bottles. I find it hard to believe they are disproportionate.
As for the ban, I won't be visiting any place that bans them. I drink water 99% of the time. I have since childhood. The day they started selling bottled water was a happy, happy day for me because it meant I could leave my house and not have to make sure I was had a thermos or three on me. I dreaded road trips pre-bottled water.
And at home, tap water is not always safe to drink for everyone. Mine is questionable enough (and tastes terrible) that I use a water delivery company for drinking water. As long as people are drinking sodas in bottles, I'm keeping my water thanks.
Paper containers cause environmental problems as well, including deforestation and toxic chemicals used to turn wood pulp based paper products white.
Of course once we can grow hemp for fiber, we can at least stop worrying about cutting down trees to make paper. Hemp fiber makes a much higher quality paper anyway. It's what the Declaration of Independence is printed on.
It doesn't have to mean deforestation,how about using more bamboo,and as you said... hemp fiber.
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Americans love the notion of purchased virtue and much of the appeal of the Green thing is purchasing virtue; virtue as a commodity, a consumer product. The new Puritans, God's elect out to parade their virtue, they would've felt at home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
We did it first. Personally I think it's kind of dumb. They already get recycled. What kind of containers can people use? Go back to glass? I don't use store bought water anyway.
Your right as i work in concord. The whole green movement is outta control. Most of the bottles are recycled
from any homeowner who follows the rules with their garbage collectors. We put the plastic in the recycle bin..
Banning bottled water!! What the hell are people gonna drink in places like concord, a major tourist destination..sounds great, deprive people of the most basic need. WATER....It's insane, and this is just the
beginning of the insanity..
I trust that sales of bottled water does not reach beyond the city properties.
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