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At last someone in the US has the guts to ban..
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over a year ago
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According to figures in 2006, Americans drank an average 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 38 bottles per person which meant about 50 billion plastic bottles were consumed, but only 23 percent were recycled, leaving 38 billion plastic water bottles to be thrown away.
Apparently manufacturing plastic bottles for water uses over 1.5 million barrels of oil per year — that’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars....
Oh well....I guess its not such a cuckoo idea...
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over a year ago
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Do you lot not realise how dangerous an empty bottle is.
Hell the rifle lobby will fight this law with every inch of it life.
ITS UNCONSTITUTIONAL I TELL YOU  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Apparently they can still sell them in special circumstances ( really) and they haven't banned fuzzy drinks of the same size, the locals say they will just nip to a neighbouring town that sells them so that's well thought out then  |
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Right now there is some little nobody, who's mum or dad has a plethora of M16's etc laying around in the house, who is getting REALLY hot under the collar about not being able to go and buy his daily 'Oakey Finoakey' 500ml bottle of water. He steams and simmers about it for a month, then one afternoon when his parents are out, he picks up an assault rifle, takes his mums car to the local store and shouting the words 'Gimme ma water you bastards!!' guns down everyone at the store and then shoots himself.
And the NRA will no doubt say..... "See! It's 500ml bottles of water that kill people - NOT guns!!"
Bloody glad we let them have their country 200-odd years ago... 
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"According to figures in 2006, Americans drank an average 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 38 bottles per person which meant about 50 billion plastic bottles were consumed, but only 23 percent were recycled, leaving 38 billion plastic water bottles to be thrown away.
Apparently manufacturing plastic bottles for water uses over 1.5 million barrels of oil per year — that’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars....
Oh well....I guess its not such a cuckoo idea...
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Ahhhh, so having all that extra oil will stop them looking for it elsewhere?? |
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"According to figures in 2006, Americans drank an average 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 38 bottles per person which meant about 50 billion plastic bottles were consumed, but only 23 percent were recycled, leaving 38 billion plastic water bottles to be thrown away.
Apparently manufacturing plastic bottles for water uses over 1.5 million barrels of oil per year — that’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars....
Oh well....I guess its not such a cuckoo idea...
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Haha makes me giggle that you know this  |
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"According to figures in 2006, Americans drank an average 167 bottles of water each, but only recycled an average of 38 bottles per person which meant about 50 billion plastic bottles were consumed, but only 23 percent were recycled, leaving 38 billion plastic water bottles to be thrown away.
Apparently manufacturing plastic bottles for water uses over 1.5 million barrels of oil per year — that’s enough oil to fuel 100,000 cars....
Oh well....I guess its not such a cuckoo idea...
Ahhhh, so having all that extra oil will stop them looking for it elsewhere?? "
I doubt it... but it might help reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex…..
Well worth a google search... |
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I doubt it... but it might help reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex…..
Well worth a google search... "
Won't make a lot of difference to Massachusetts tho will it? Unless they're carting their empties 300 miles to the pacific |
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It wont reduce anything other than local sales of 500ml bottles of water.
People will bulk buy from the out of town shopping mall.
Others will buy alternate product.
Stupid idea from an even more stupid country. |
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I doubt it... but it might help reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex…..
Well worth a google search...
Won't make a lot of difference to Massachusetts tho will it? Unless they're carting their empties 300 miles to the pacific "
Many Britsh councils send our household waste for land fill which ends up in India... |
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I doubt it... but it might help reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex…..
Well worth a google search...
Won't make a lot of difference to Massachusetts tho will it? Unless they're carting their empties 300 miles to the pacific
Many Britsh councils send our household waste for land fill which ends up in India... "
thats not entirely true is it? some recyclable stuff is sent to india for re processing. quite often stuff is not sorted and the wrong stuff ends up in india. councils don't send rubbish to indian landfill sites |
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I doubt it... but it might help reduce the size of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Pacific Trash Vortex…..
Well worth a google search...
Won't make a lot of difference to Massachusetts tho will it? Unless they're carting their empties 300 miles to the pacific
Many Britsh councils send our household waste for land fill which ends up in India...
thats not entirely true is it? some recyclable stuff is sent to india for re processing. quite often stuff is not sorted and the wrong stuff ends up in india. councils don't send rubbish to indian landfill sites"
I never said our councils send it directly to India.... but it does get there.... I know because I've been there!.... seen it.... |
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