SFist: Gavin Newsom "Takes Back the Tap"

carney

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:42:51 -0800

Glass, glass, glass!

iris

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:31:20 -0800

@ Carney: Because plastic leeches toxins into the water, even the super-heavy duty stuff they make Nalgene bottles out of. Aluminum keeps your water carcinogen-free. ...Well, free of any plastic-induced carcinogens, that is.

carney

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:15:34 -0800

But why are they advocating using aluminium?

katerose26

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:56:15 -0800

Good luck getting restaurants on board with this one. Small businesses in this city are already bleeding money, so I can't imagine they'd be eager to voluntarily lose even more revenue.

bluecanary

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:04:13 -0800

I was referring to the plastic bag ban. The idea about placing the blurb on the menu is a great one. Some cities have truly disgusting water (Houston, I'm talking about you), and out of towners may not realize ours is actually quite tasty.

overeduc8ed

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:28:33 -0800

bluecanary: Gavin isn't proposing a law. Mostly it's just a PR campaign (SF is the awesomest and has the awesomest water!) combined with a pubic service announcement (uh, the water out of the tap is safer, better, and free-er than the crap you're buying in bottles, ya dolts). It might also be helpful for restaurants (especially the kind that attract a lot of out-of-town rich folk) to volunteer to publish a blurb about the tap water in their menus. The lost revenue is probably a dealbreaker, though. Maybe the city could offer a trash collection rebate to those restaurants that don't serve bottled water?

apattison

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:42:52 -0800

If I remember correctly the plastic bag ban is only enforced on large grocery stores. Retail can do whatever they want. Small corner grocery can dole out the plastic. It's a step in the right direction, it just needs to expand to other parts of economy who don't care if our lovely seagulls choke to death *tear*

RinconHillSF

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 23:25:42 -0800

Safeway definitely stopped doling out the plastic bags

bluecanary

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:18:43 -0800

cleangovt, you're on fire tonight. Who *does* the plastic bag ban effect, really? The Walgreens employees almost seem as if they're in some kind of race to see if they can get your crap into plastic before you can get the words "I don't need a bag" out of your mouth. Typical half-assed, non-enforceable law that looks good but does no good. Typical Newsom. The water here is really good, though.

RobInSF

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:13:40 -0800

Caption for photo "Lissen here...I'm the goveno-MAYOR of San Francisco and when I tell you that her tit's were THIS BIG - you would NOT have believed it! Besides, everybody knows you cannot mix scotch with Evian - it's got to be SF tap water! *burrrrrp*"

cleangovt

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:29:16 -0800

First they came for the bottled water, and I did not speak out- Because I was not a Gap-clad yuppie on my way to work after spin class Then they came for the Perrier and Pellegrino, and I did not speak out-- Because who cares what cologne-soaked Eurotrash drinks? Then they came for the club soda, and I did not speak out-- Because I don't really care for scotch Then they came for the tonic water- And there was nothing left to mix with gin.

Plug1

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:47:05 -0800

ps: SFpist & SFBgrrl, see ya in the cubicle farm!!

Plug1

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:44:36 -0800

SFpist: and i quoth "Pic from Plug1". additionally, they had some fantastic glass pitchers that said "i heart SF tap water" on the side and man, if someone knows how to get one of them, ill be happily pouring tap water all cot damned day.

SFBgrrl

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:11:11 -0800

I'm pretty sure it was someone using a Sidekick LX! That phone rocks for on-the-spot pics.

SFpist

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:02:39 -0800

nice pic....i wonder who took it.

IMonster

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:23:45 -0800

p.s. - I got a plastic bag at H&M the other day. I thought SF was plastic bag free?

IMonster

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:02:25 -0800

Huh. Seems like an awful lot of nightclubs would rather sell folks a 3.00 bottle of water than offer them a nice glass of water (to keep them from getting so wasted) Are they going to do some training for local bars on how to clean the coolers of water they set out for patrons? What about the disposable plastic cups they give us to use rather than glassware?