what like poverty and homelessness and why a city as rich as Toronto still needs a food bank?
the current city council is full of idiots
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Toronto may ban sale of bottled water
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what like poverty and homelessness and why a city as rich as Toronto still needs a food bank?
the current city council is full of idiots
I've never understood why, here in Oregon where the bottle deposit * was first introduced in the US, soft drinks, beer, mixers have a five cent deposit, but bottled water has been exempt.
It should certainly bring down sales a bit, now that we've extended the deposit to water bottles sold beginning next year, and it should keep down the plastic in our landfills, too.
However, if it were up to me, the deposit would go to .20 or .25 immediately. This would make a huge difference in recycling efforts, and also greatly benefit the homeless people and others who collect the discarded bottles....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Bottle_Bill
It should certainly bring down sales a bit, now that we've extended the deposit to water bottles sold beginning next year, and it should keep down the plastic in our landfills, too.
However, if it were up to me, the deposit would go to .20 or .25 immediately. This would make a huge difference in recycling efforts, and also greatly benefit the homeless people and others who collect the discarded bottles....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Bottle_Bill
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Fine, if everybody recycled all their empties.
But that's not even close to happening, at least in the USA. Smaller towns, like the one I live in, don't really do anything that encourages a lot of recycling.
Almost every bottle of water that I have EVER seen anybody drink (when visiting, or at parties, etc.), the bottles ended up simply being thrown into the rubbish, and not recycled at all.
I have NEVER bought into this "crap" about buying bottled water. I do take empty one-gallon water jugs to the supermarket water machine and refill them, though. My own tap water is probably NOT safe to drink...
LilBit
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In Switzerland, the deposit is (IIRC) 50 centimes, which currently works out to about 50 cents US. It really increases the number of people who return their bottles.
And I think it should be the same here.
Hell, make it a dollar deposit, then they'd take notice!
Seriously. You comply, you get your money back anyway....
Spiff
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Hasn't San Francisco already done this? I remember hearing in the news that they were at least considering it.
MrBarbrey
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Smh what a fucking dumbass
trawler69
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I couldn't believe it when I heard about Dasani
Then when I was Stateside and tasted it...yuck...it was dead. Aquafina was another one that had no life to it. I can't believe that people literally swallowed that crap. They wouldn't sell a single drop of it over here. I found it hard to find spring water and when I finally found Zephyrhills I bought a case of it.
As I recall Dasani is RO (Reverse Osmosis) water. It is extremely pure. When I was working in the medical cleaning industry we had to use this in our machines. Because it was so pure it was also very corrosive. Water likes to have things dissolved in it and when it is purified to this extent it dissolves what it can. We couldn't use brass fittings for example as it dissolved the zinc out of the brass.
I can't see it being of any benefit at all to a human being, in fact quite the opposite. I could imagine that it could leach out beneficial things.
The nicest water I ever had came from a spring fed stream in Yorkshire. I drank it straight from the stream. If it had any pathogens in it then they only served to boost my immune system. I certainly never had any adverse reaction to it.
I think people who drink bottled water at home are wasting their money but I do buy it when I don’t have access to tap water. I wish cities would put recycling containers on sidewalks next to the trash barrels, but this ban is foolish.