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Posted on 04/26/2011 10:53:28 AM PDT by massmike
The town of Concord has banned the sale of bottled drinking water in town beginning in 2011.
"We only have one planet and I just don't want to see it spoiled," said Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord's Town Meeting.
Hill said that New York, Illinois and Virginia, as well as more than 100 cities, have taken action to cut spending on bottled water.
The measured passed by Concord would allow the sale of refillable containers of water, which could still be sold and delivered in town. Only plastic bottles that companies cannot reuse would be banned.
"Water is something we can get from the faucet. You can't turn your faucet on and get soda," said Selectwoman Virginia McIntyre, explaining why other plastic bottles would not be banned.
The ban on plastic water bottle sales may be largely symbolic. Town officials aren't sure they have the power to enact the ban without approval from the state.
(Excerpt) Read more at thebostonchannel.com ...
Have they got this approved from Mrs. barack hussein obama Jr....she wants sodas banned and for children to drink more water....
I always crush my water bottles down till they’re flat, then screw the cap back on tight so they stay that way. Not because I have to, but because I care...
Liberals. They take lead out of paint but put mercury into your light bulbs.
Was the blood shed on The Bridge all for nothing?
I’ll go buy another couple of flats of water today in honor of the commie scum running Concord.
Imagine the lawsuits, if anyone ever gets sick from drinking tap water in Concord — considering that they outlawed the competition.
There was talk of this awhile back—and then there was the big water main break that affected a whole bunch of towns and Howie Carr was saying “these guys would want to ban bottled water, but then THIS happens? What are people gonna do?”
The friggin' health nuts got rid of anything deemed unhealthful from all the public places and replaced them with water.
I've seen people commuting with a water bottle in hand, reading the newspaper, etc.
NOW, without a plastic bottle, how can one keep their favorite libation near at hand?
Will the water cooler come back in vogue?
Will there be water cooler police to assure no politically incorrect conversation takes place?
Oh, Jean, you're SO caring. You care SO much about the planet.
And that makes you a MUCH better person than those people who don't.
Here’s an opportunity to make extra money. This new ordinance will allow a water marketers to sell “still” club soda at a premium over normal water. This new product will have the advantage over its carbonated brothers by being a “green” product - the suspended CO2 in carbonated water will spill into the atmosphere. The “still” version will have no such deleterious effect on the environment.
>> Jean Hill, who introduced the measure at Concord’s Town Meeting.
What an idiot. So, a child in need of water will need to drink something loaded with whatever. This jackass is a control freak.
Bottled water companies will just switch to waxed paper/cardboard containers.
More mindless regulation from the Statists. Just pass illogical laws whether or not they are legal or even enforceable. If I was stupid enough to live up there, I would open a roadside stand three steps out of the city limit and sell bottle water.
And then they’ll whine and complain about the loss in tax dollars when people start shopping in other towns.
This jackass wants to justify her pernicious belief that she’s a good person.
“The measured passed by Concord would allow the sale of refillable containers of water.”
Every bottle of water I’ve ever bought was refillable. Yes, people often choose to not refill them, but that doesn’t make them not refillable. Oh the joys of living in a town run by idiots!
The lefty enviro wackos just need to go ahead and off themselves. For the good of the planet, of course.
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