Brandeis to Ban Bottled Water Sales
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Banning Water Sales
I think this is great. I think it should be done everywhere. Water comes from sinks and from the general water supply. This is what we pay taxes for. What motivation do they have to keep our public supply clean and healthy when everyone is buying it in a wasteful plastic bottle. People in general are so wasteful, it is very disheartening. I discourage any waste of any kind and that is why we drink water from a tap, and coffee from a mug, not a paper/styrofoam cup. And what about Kool-aid out of a pitcher in plastic tumblers for kids. Call me a tree hugger, but I want the earth to last as long as possible! I have a child and want grandkids one day that can still play outside. Just like gas prices, keep buying the SUV's and prices will continue to go up, supply and demand people!
water bottles etc
In the future we will all walk around with a stainless steel chain around our necks to which will be attached a cup, plate, knife, fork and spoon. Where ever we eat, we will use our own utencils, and the big ritual of the meal will be when we all wash them at the end! This will really save the environment!
Growing up in Hawaii, we used all stainless in school, and students took turns helping to wash them after. Students here now use all plastic and paper settings. Why? The basic morality of students changed and they began to steal the utencils. Students can no longer clean classrooms and help in the cafeteria! The courst stopped this as "Involentary servitude!" Slavery! Oh, boy! I used to enjoy helping!
Drink More Water
What a silly idea this university has. Perhaps they should close the cafeteria and just give it's students sugar pills. While growing fast, bottled water sales lag far behind that of carbonated soft drinks. Further, softdrink bottles are considerably more heavy than water bottles. On top of this, drinking water is far better for students than drinking sugar laden soft drinks. Drink tap water? If students were willing to drink tap water, bottled water wouldn't be popular. But people aren't chosing bottled water over tap water, they chose bottled water over soft drinks. Why? Because we won't drink it unless it comes from a bottle. So banning bottled water will actually result in a higher weight of waste and sugar buzzed over-weight students. Sounds like fun!
Bottled Water
I agree with John (from MD)... I believe that the banning botled water sales is silly and more political a move than anything else. You cannot single out one industry and say, "Hey, I am banning your product because it is selling too much and causing waste!" Clean water is essential for human operations, as oil is essential for national economy operation... and I haven't heard too many calls for oil to go away either (to clarify, ie. noone is dumping there cars in favor of mass transit as their sole ethod of transportation.) If the concern is waste then PEOPLE, and GOVENMENT need to step up and force the issue of recycling and make it an attractive practice.
In the end, if you really feel that banning water bottle sales are going to somehow answer all of our environmental concerns your mistaken. Women are the number one consumers in the world and guess what, cosmetics are the number one culprit in this plastics game. Beverage containers are up their as well. Many of these types of contaners are very heavy and dense as to protect the contents inside and do not degrade for a long period of time. Think about it, everything we know and love and use arrives on way or the other in plastc bottles or containers.
If you are going to ban something ... ban everything plastic (under 1 gallon containers) and stop cherry picing the pile. You'll find this disscussion a bit more lively and productive than this one, because in the end, instead for shooting rhetoic back and forth, you will find that plastic has had a very large impact on the way people live and consume product all around the world. Answers are not always what they seem. Doing this would effect every industry on the planet!!! Not just water companies, not to mention the job loss rates that would ensue shortly thereafter.
Listen, Research, Verify, Plan and then Act ... reactions never quite work out the way they're intended. You start banning water bottle sales and you'll find the market will just do something else to get te same results.
Much love too you all.
Re: Drink more water
they don't offer bottled soda in the cafeterias at brandeis, although you can buy them in certain locations elsewhere on campus. there are juices, powerades, milk cartons, etc. and while they do have soda fountains, which also offer water and alternative drinks, there are no bottles. Furthermore most students are willing to drink tap water, they just needed something portable to put it in, hence the free water bottles distributed to members of the brandeis community.
banning water sales
At last a properly conservative gesture: perhaps this signals the beginning of a truly conservative movement among students? Conservatives need to go green again.
