Demand an Ontario Bottle Bill
Bottle Bills, or container deposit laws, have proven to be highly effective ways of cutting down the amount of bottles piling up in landfills, polluting the environment:
In Canada, recovery rates for non-refillable beverage containers by provinces range from a low of 67% in Newfoundland to 83% in Nova Scotia.
The problem is that most bottle bills or deposit systems only cover beer and carbonated soft drinks, and do not include non-carbonated drinks such as bottled water, including the Province of Ontario%u2019s current Deposit Return Program which only covers alcoholic beverage containers.
According to an Environment and Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) study, in 2002, Ontario had a 35% recycling rate for plastic beverage bottles, one of the lowest rates in the country. As a result, over 33,000 tonnes of plastic was burned or buried that year alone, releasing toxins into the ground and atmosphere.
This is an environmental problem manufactured by the bottled water industry and the costs are then being shifted onto municipalities that lack the resources to handle it.
Bottle Bills, or container deposit laws, have proven to be highly effective ways of cutting down the amount of bottles piling up in landfills, polluting the environment:
In Canada, recovery rates for non-refillable beverage containers by provinces range from a low of 67% in Newfoundland to 83% in Nova Scotia.
The problem is that most bottle bills or deposit systems only cover beer and carbonated soft drinks, and do not include non-carbonated drinks such as bottled water, including the Province of Ontario%u2019s current Deposit Return Program which only covers alcoholic beverage containers.
According to an Environment and Plastics Industry Council (EPIC) study, in 2002, Ontario had a 35% recycling rate for plastic beverage bottles, one of the lowest rates in the country. As a result, over 33,000 tonnes of plastic was burned or buried that year alone, releasing toxins into the ground and atmosphere.
This is an environmental problem manufactured by the bottled water industry and the costs are then being shifted onto municipalities that lack the resources to handle it.
The U.S. manufacturer of Aquafina bottled water will soon revise the product's label to clearly show the drink is made with treated tap water. Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water by Trevor Datson Producing the bottles for American consumption required the equivalent of more than 17 million barrels of oil, not including the energy for transportation Bottling water produced more than 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide It took 3 liters of water to produce 1 liter of bottled water
bottled water is bad!
bottled water is bad!
US should have laws like this too, maybe someone should start a petition on it.
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2:03 am PDT, Aug 10,
Nuntanit Bumrungsap, Thailand
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This is an issue that is effecting the environment world wide. Each of us, individually and through our governments needs to enact the solutions before we are all drowned in a sea of plastic water bottles.
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