San Francisco bans sale of plastic water bottles on city property

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San Francisco has made another step towards greening the city this week, with a recent ordinance to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on city-owned property.

The city’s Board of Supervisors approved the measure unanimously on Tuesday; it will head to the mayor’s desk after one more board approval. The ordinance exempts sporting events and gives food trucks and large nonprofits until 2018 to comply with the new ordinance.

“We all know with climate change, and the importance of combatting climate change, San Francisco has been leading the way to fight for our environment,” ordinance author and Supervisor David Chiu said, according to SFGate. “That’s why I ask you to support this ordinance to reduce and discourage single-use, single-serving plastic water bottles in San Francisco.”

Americans use 50 billion plastic water bottles a year, according to an anti-plastic bottle campaign Ban the Bottle, and just 23% of those are recycled.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/san-francisco-bans-sale-plastic-water-bottles-climate-change

[Historic NY]

1. We have a bottle deposit in Ny

that includes water bottles which pickers, pick and return for $$

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2. Yes, I believe there are many reasons for the ban besides the fact ...

they do not decompose for over 1000 years ...

I believe there is a new study showing that plastic bottles are detrimental to your health ... and that is any plastic bottle ...

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3. Well if they were really concerned about pollution, particularly air pollution, they'd get rid of

Glen Beck. What a breath of fresh air that would be!

But good on San Francisco. They're doing what's right and necessary with so many people in such a small area.

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4. 23% recycled? We can do better than that.

Or, it just goes to show what a poor steward of our own environment we really are. And to think, we want to venture to other worlds!