So far 19 parks, including Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona, Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina, Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota and Zion National Park in Utah, have established water filling stations and banned sales of bottled water, although visitors remain free to bring in their own bottled water or any legal beverage. Grand Canyon estimates that plastic bottles made up 20 percent of its solid waste stream. It now sells refillable water bottles for as little as $2.50. Zion National Park has made more money in sales of reusable bottles than it lost in bottled water sales.
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The bottle bans could inspire park visitors to cut their bottled water use back at home, and help spread the message of the environmental benefits of choosing tap water.
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The bottled water industry and its allies in Congress say the bans may be having adverse effects on public health and safety by leaving some visitors dehydrated if they cant find water and by pushing others to drink less healthy beverages, like sugary sodas.
What they're really saying is it will have adverse effects on the bottling companies bottom lines.
I hate it when I see people carrying cases of bottled water out of the grocery store. What a waste of plastic and you just know it's going to end up, un-recycled, in a landfill or in one of the great plastic garbage piles in the oceans. I buy a bottle of water once in a great while, when the one I have wears out and then refill it over and over and over again! It's JUST water for Pete's sake! A lot of the bottled water sold in the store is simply tap water from a city water supply that is put into a bottle and people think they're getting this special kind of water, when they are not! Morons!
At least recycle the damned things! I recycle mine and I'm one of the lazest people you'll ever meet! So if I can, so can you! No excuses!
The phthalates used in plastic manufacturing are an endocrine disruptors.
I'll bet every single water bottle on the ground came from a republican.
What a ridiculous seed.
Of course not. However they are the ones who are fighting banning them in public parks, so they will be at least partially responsible for the number of them on the ground in the future, since they fought to allow them to be there in the first place.
Hardly ridiculousin any manner.
A silly regulation that serves no purpose?
Eliminatingthousands of commercial water bottles the public discards all over a National Parkis of no value? Keep in mind that it is your tax dollars that are spent cleaning up those bottles Cerenkov.
I think the same thing Randy, I can hardly believe people actually buy water. Next thing we know they will selling bottles of air.
There have been reports that some bottled is not as healthy as the water from your own home water. Here is on of them;
[ Readers Digest ]
Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water: Rethink What You Drink
Chemicals, contaminants, pollution, price: new reasons to rethink what you drink and beware of bottled water.
If they don't get the bill passed you can bet every bottle of water on the ground is there because a Republican vote against a bill that could have prevented it from being there.
What a ridicules attitude.
(And they wonder why Right Wingers are called "Knuckle draggers")
I posted my comment before seeing yours, so you can see we both have exactly the same take on this issue.
If they don't get the bill passed you can bet every bottle of water on the ground is there because a Republican vote against a bill that could have prevented it from being there.
Which means that in the future every single water bottle on the ground will have been put there by a republican.