The Council of Canadians has a petition relating to massive amounts of groundwater water to be extracted on Ontario by a bottle water company. A pledge, actually.
"Blue Triton Waters — the corporation that bought out #Nestlé’s North American bottled water business in 2021 — will take a total of more than 8 billion litres of groundwater from two wells in #Ontario over five years.
Permits issued by the Government of Ontario grant Triton enough groundwater to fill 14 billion more #plastic bottles. Laid end to end, those bottles would circle the globe 70 times.
This deeply unjust deal is just one among many across Canada that undermine our human right to water, and our global responsibility to reduce single-use plastics.
Sign the pledge today to boycott commercial bottled water."
@Daniel_Blake I remember the days when glass pop/soda bottle were replaced with plastic. The argument was that glass sometimes breaks and is dangerous (and oversized bottles exploded). I think the big thing was plastic bottles cost less to ship as it weights less, and there was some breakage during shipping. But, somehow, for the most part, beer and wine continued to stay in glass or cans. Glass bottles were usually refundable, reusable and recyclable. i say, bring back glass for those products.
As for water - reusable containers!
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