Posted on 05/05/2010 11:16:56 AM PDT by Puppage
Not true. Water bottles are not covered under the MA bottle bill, have no deposit, and are not returnable, which is the crux of the problem. I don't know why the state doesn't just add water bottles to the return policy.
In lieu of a return on these, I actually have no problem with a town banning them - where I live right now, my derelict neighbors apparently have no problem just throwing their empty water bottles onto the ground. They are all over the place. But you never see a soda can on the ground - somebody would pick it up because it's worth something.
well, I guess America got it’s start in Concord, and apparently it will end there as well
Why not 10 feet? Much more convenient. Gives new meaning to "dry counties", hey? Still, don't you think the gas wasted to drive outside of town to buy bottled water will more than offset any ostensible oil-savings from banning bottled-water?
The kinds of people that come up with this nonsense are just such fools.
*sigh*
The rotten eggs smell is from naturally-occuring hydrogen sulfide dissolved in the groundwater. It's pretty common in north central MA; my last house had it. It has nothing to do with anything other than geography, is not harmful, is easily rectified with a home water aeration/filtration system, and has nothing to do with dirtbags who throw their plastic water bottles on the ground because they're too lazy to recycle them.
Your water still stinks, and I know why. And you can save the condesending “*sigh*” as if you are just tooo bored to deal with this.
“Easily rectified with an aeration/filtration system”.
Oh, sure and how much does that cost? And what happens if you have an extended power outage?
Anyway, that’s not the point.
The point is are we going to do outlaw everything because stupid iresponsible people throw trash all over?
Gonna try and outlaw my guns too?
I packed lunches for the kids for a church event a while ago. A sandwich, an orange, a cookie, and a BOTTLE OF WATER.
Why not soda, Sunny Delight, tiny milk cartons?
Because water has no sugar, no caffeine, and everybody is willing to drink it if they’re thirsty.
I guess if I lived in this idiot town I’d have to pack everyone a Coke.
I know, “Jean” puts out a lot of trash, doesn’t she?
The whole-house filter I installed was around $3k. Not cheap, but I knew about the sulfur when I bought the house and considered the filter an necessary cost of choosing that particular house. If you don't like the water, nobody will force you to buy a house that has sulfur in the ground water. I don't get your point about the power outage. If the power went out, I didn't have running water AT ALL, because the well pump wasn't running anyway.
I've never encountered sulfur in any municipal water system anywhere in MA ever, and I've lived all over the state my entire life, 40-something years. The municipal water treatment facilities must take care of it. It's only an issue with private wells.
I still don't know what this has to do with nonreturnable water bottles. Just add the frickin $0.05 deposit to water bottles and the problem is solved.
And what's with the stupid gun comment? Lighten up, Francis. You are free to leave your guns lying around on my property all you want; I'll just add them to my own collection.
What's with the knee-jerk conservative reaction to ANYTHING suggestive of displeasure with wanton and needless environmental destruction and pollution? Do you LIKE seeing people's discarded plastic water bottles all over the place?
I'm a conservative, a gun-owner, a small-government sort of guy, but I don't have a problem with a town deciding to ban the sale of a particular product if the residents are too lazy and ignorant to dispose of their own plastic trash and the state won't just add a deposit to said item.
Nah, she has two. When they click together, a word comes out of her mouth.
I'd say that we could use 3.1 barrels, and a half-stack of old "Newsweek" magazines to accomplish the same thing.
See! I can make statistics up out of thin air, too! :-)
I don't have a faucet in my car. If the trip is long I take several bottles of water with me, that is more water than would fit into a thermos mug.
would allow the sale of refillable containers of water
Plastic water bottles *are* refillable, and I do refill them. So this means they are banning sales of refillable containers that come with water inside? I think they are setting themselves up for a lawsuit, like tortious interference. Town administrators are not kings, and town folks are not their subjects.
There’s a video clip of Hill and the “soda lady” being interviewed at this page:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23320994/detail.html
Not a couple of real bright bulbs, I reckon.
Was Concord one of the towns/cities that were distributing (free) bottled water during the "crisis"? On my way home from shopping Saturday, I heard on the radio that Saugus was -- I was thinking, "What is this -- the Sudan? Does Saugus have no supermarkets?" Later I heard that lots of other towns did it too!
I guess these turkeys think nothing ever happens in Concord that might cause the town to ever lose its water supply. Nothing like an earthquake or a hurricane (although admittedly by the time a hurricane reaches New England it has gotten pretty puny). They must think that if the town ever gets blacked out due to a blizzard the inhabitants can melt snow.
As for a water main failure that makes the city’s water undrinkable? Nah. That type of thing *never* happens in New England cities. Just never.
Glad I live in Texas where I am allowed to keep 5 gallons of bottled drinking water in my house in case an emergency happens. But obviously that type of emergency can *never* happen in a blue state.
The point about the power outage is pretty simple. What do you use for drinking water when your well pump doesn’t have power?If you outlaw water from plastic bottles, that kind of puts a crimp in that idea. Although you can always drink beer I suppose.
“It’s only a problem with private wells”. How many tens of thousands of them are there?
My point about the guns is the same argument as with the water. Because idiots throw their trash all over, you want to outlaw the trash, instead of enforcing your litter laws.
The same with guns. Because some loonies like to shoot people, liberals want to outlaw the guns.
Like your Kennedy clan.
“Lighten up Francis”? It’s a good thing for you we don’t live any where close. Now go pick up your trash.
Too close and they’ll annex you, you’ve got to make them work for it.
The whole anti-bottled water movement is silly. If these people really want people to use less bottled water they should put some effort into make the local tap water drinkable.
I live near Nashua NH and we cannot go shopping on the weekends for all the MASS plates clogging up the parking and it’s worse since the tax increase recently. Of course we encourage Gov Patrick to keep raising all taxes....
Thanx for that, I just looked and there are five states listed but you are right MA is not one of them. But they still have to put them into recycling bins on trash pick up day...
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