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Harry[_5_]

On 6/14/10 6:25 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:56:32 -0400, John
wrote:

On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:40:00 -0400, wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:55:11 -0400, John
wrote:

On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:14:08 -0400, wrote:

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On Jun 11, 8:12 pm, John wrote:
" "?a Fairfax Water customer who buys a 20-ounce bottle of water for
$1.25
could fill that same 20-ounce bottle with our tap water every day for
more than
10 years for that same $1.25."

I wish they'd charge a 25cent deposit for every plastic bottle sold.

"Bottled Water" in Ontario, will soon be a thing of the past. Thank
Gawd....

It's outlawed in Halifax Municipal offices& meetings.
Province has been talking about the same thing.

The utility of bottled water is imeasurable. Freezing water to make ice
cubes is a waste of a valuable resource when the ice is put into a
cooler. Freezing bottles of water to use as "ice" in a cooler doesn't
waste the water. Besides there is plenty of oil around to continue to
make the plastic bottles.

Well, that just means you're putting that bottle on which you paid a deposit to
good use. That's much better than trashing it alongside the road or in the bay.

Littering is a separate issue. Do you think we should have a deposit
on all containers, wrappers and cups?
I fish out all the trash I see in the river and I get as many ice
bags, subway bags and styrofoam cups as I do beverage containers.
Water bottles are really fairly rare.

Right now my hangup is with plastic bottles. Some places are already charging
for plastic bags, and I've no problem with that either. Biodegradable
containers are OK.

I know that they used to say the grocery (plastic) bags were
biodegradable and the sun would turn them to dust in a few months. I
am now sure what happened to that.. Again, grocery bags are not the
ones I see in the water most of the time. It is ice bags.

My real problem with deposits is that the deposit does not actually
cover the cost of handling the empties, even with the 50% premium the
merchant gets when he turns them in so it just becomes an additional
tax on the cost of the product when he passes that cost on.

Just wait until BP passes on that cost of cleaning up its mess.