Concord, Mass., the first US city to ban sale of plastic water bottles

[koalabear]

Bans on plastic bags have taken root in communities across the country, but banning the sale of water in plastic bottles? The town of Concord, Mass., is in line to be the first in the nation to do just that, now that the state’s attorney general has signed off. The bottled water industry, for its part, is considering a lawsuit.

Championed by an 84-year-old resident during a three-year battle, the law bans the sale of single-serving PET water bottles of one liter or less starting on Jan. 1 in Concord, population 18,000.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...ity-to-ban-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles?lite

 

[Adre]

Bans on plastic bags have taken root in communities across the country, but banning the sale of water in plastic bottles? The town of Concord, Mass., is in line to be the first in the nation to do just that, now that the state’s attorney general has signed off. The bottled water industry, for its part, is considering a lawsuit.

Championed by an 84-year-old resident during a three-year battle, the law bans the sale of single-serving PET water bottles of one liter or less starting on Jan. 1 in Concord, population 18,000.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...ity-to-ban-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles?lite

Massachusetts, home of liberals and liberal Republican governors

 

[BoyNextDoor]

"This ban deprives residents of the option to choose their choice of beverage and visitors, who come to this birthplace of American independence, a basic freedom gifted to them by the actions in this town more than 200 years ago," the group added, noting Concord's place in U.S. history.

I'm not sure that buying less than a liter of water in a plastic container ranks up there with 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness'.

 

[Peregrinator]

Good. It was always a stupid idea. Petroleum-based containers? Yeah, not so much.

 

[thør]

Water in plastic bottles is so passé.

The big money is in air. When the public can be convinced to buy air in plastic bottles, profits will be huge.

 

[Peregrinator]

Water in plastic bottles is so passé.

The big money is in air. When the public can be convinced to buy air in plastic bottles, profits will be huge.

I'm not gay, but now I have a crush on you for this post.

 

[koalabear]

Water in plastic bottles is so passé.

The big money is in air. When the public can be convinced to buy air in plastic bottles, profits will be huge.

They already buy all the hot air.

 

[unregistered]

 

[koalabear]

If they had any balls the wackos would have banned all plastic and put The People's Republic of Massachusetts back into the 19th Century.

Can't ban it all, cars would be banned.

 

[chillywilly2]

Walking along an ocean beach the other day. Middle of the gulf of St Lawrence.
The island is pretty much uninhabited.

What do I see washed up on an otherwise beautiful beach...half a dozen plastic bottles...great

 

[thør]

I'm not gay, but now I have a crush on you for this post.

I'm all for free choice on buying water in bottles, but it's pretty fucking stupid and a waste of money to do so in most places in the US and Canada.

 

[thør]

They already buy all the hot air.

But not in plastic bottles.......

 

[chillywilly2]

I'm all for free choice on buying water in bottles, but it's pretty fucking stupid and a waste of money to do so in most places in the US and Canada.

Chances are tap water is better than what you get in a bottle

 

[thør]

Chances are tap water is better than what you get in a bottle

Indeed. A couple of years ago, the best tasting water contest was won by the utilty that supplies water for the Village of Kipnuk, AK. Kipnuk draws it's water from a melt lake in the summer and treats it. It's no garden spot. But the water from the tap is just fine.

 

[BotanyBoy]

If they had any balls the wackos would have banned all plastic and put The People's Republic of Massachusetts back into the 19th Century.

LMFAO *knee slapper* Looks like ROMMODOUCHIE'S socialist paradise is doing well. Using all that freedom and liberty to wield democracy as a weapon of the little guy...how fucking dare they!!!

They didn't want bottled water in their town....so they voted it off the concord mass island. Sounds like a bunch of conservatives giving corporate tyranny the finger to me....but then again I'm just the nut job who thinks the people who hate obama are lining up to vote for the liberal who did all the things they hate obama for first is comedy at it's finest.

Water in plastic bottles is so passé.

The big money is in air. When the public can be convinced to buy air in plastic bottles, profits will be huge.

They already buy all the hot air.

They have been buying hot air for YEARS.

 

[keyshawn]

According to some experts, bottled water ban next item after plastic bag ban. There was some hullabaloo in the last couple years over plastic bag bans, where cities banned plastic grocery bags. Environmentalists cheered it, others decried it. After all, it's mandating the manner in which one can transport their groceries and that's serious micromanagement. What many forget that those bags go in the trash and then sit in landfills. Cities have to pay, with tax money, people to transport and deal with trash. A few cloth grocery bags can transport groceries in perpetuity.

 

[about_average]

Just go back to deposit bottles. Like 25 cents a bottle. People will be less likely to throw them away, and of those that do, there will always be kids willing to pick them up and turn them in for cash.
Financial incentives work pretty well for things like this.

 

[pointless]

Just go back to deposit bottles. Like 25 cents a bottle. People will be less likely to throw them away, and of those that do, there will always be kids willing to pick them up and turn them in for cash.
Financial incentives work pretty well for things like this.

that's no longer a popular idea. nobody likes paying for that. here in michigan the stores have to take bottles back. they do not fucking like it. i know other states do it differently, but the same shit still applies.

and i'm not saying it's a bad idea. i'm just saying it's unlikely to happen because there's no profit in it.

 

[ryan8558]

Hmmm. Just wondering how many people have been killed by a plastic bottle???

 

[peterlychen]

Refilling stations? Carriers of disease. Glass bottles? Accidents waiting to happen from cut feet and asses.
I like about_average's idea about deposit bottles to encourage people to recycle. However I LIKE water in bottles from Ozarka better than drinking my dessert (i.e. Cola).