Bottled Water Mad At Mayor

Apparently, the bottled water industry is ticked off at Gavin Newsom for banning bottled water at City Hall.

Many believe that what it takes to produce, distribute, and recycle water bottles is wasteful when you think about all that fine drinking water that’s there for the taking from Hetch Hetchy. Joe Doss of the International Bottled Water Association argues, “The amount of resin needed to make the bottled water containers has been reduced by about 40 percent over the past five years.” Wow. That has absolutely no impact on how many people actually recycle their bottles. Nor does it take into account the pollution it takes to distribute them. And even if the water bottles were made of starshine, unicorn sprinkles, and fairy dust, we still won’t be forking over any dough for bottled tap water, thank you very much.

By Deborah