Boston is a renowned walking city full of tourists and locals alike. There are trash cans on every block in highly trafficked areas but no recycling bins available. Most of the trash in the cans could have been recycled. Please sign this petition to implore our city's government to remedy this issue.
Our goal is to have recycling bins on every block in highly trafficked areas such as:
Newbury Street, Charles Street, Fenway Park and the Downtown crossing area.
Why should you care? The trash that is not biodegradable usually ends up in our water ways and gets eaten by sea life then in turn goes back into our food. We end up eating it!
- Plastic bottles take 700 years to begin composting
- 90% of the cost of bottled water is due to the bottle itself
- 80% of plastic bottles are not recycled
- 38 million plastic bottles go to the dump per year in America from bottled water (not including soda)
- 24 million gallons of oil are needed to produce a billion plastic bottles
- The average American consumes 167 bottles of water a year
- Bottling and shipping water is the least energy efficient method ever used to supply water
- Bottled water is the second most popular beverage in the United States
Food for thought: South Korea, Japan, and San Francisco, to name a few are having amazing results.
San Francisco StorySouth Korea's Doing it!