Comments on: San Francisco Bans Bottled Water For City Workers (Plastics 2 / Humanity 0)

By: Why I'm a Live Earth Skeptic

Why I'm a Live Earth Skeptic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:13:12 +0000

[...] as a local partner in South Africa). There have been many news stories recently about the negative environmental impact of bottled water; both these companies sell this product as well as their less healthy [...]

By: Jamie

Jamie — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:16:13 +0000

I think it is a good idea. I stopped buying bottled water for this same reason last year. I always recycled the bottles, but one day started thinking about the damage that manufacturing and distributing them does to our environment.

No all of our water is California is bad. My fiance works on ground water cleanup and certain areas do have save drinking waters. If not, many of the filters out there do a sufficient job of making it safe.

I certainly don’t understand why they still put flouride in drinking water. Apparently no one has made a big enough stink about it.

Unfortunately, as someone said earlier, we do consume and waste a lot. And, unfortunately, our environment is suffering for it. What we need is for conservation to become the “in” thing. It seems that with our mentality, the only thing that works is peer pressure. Next time you see someone throw away something that can be recycled, sneer.

P.S. Loon that I am, I am considering taking tupperware with me next time I go to a restaurant where I know I’ll have leftovers. People may think I am nuts, but I don’t want to waste the food, and why not do that little bit to conserve paper or whatever material they use to put the leftovers in???

By: Gina

Gina — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 17:09:53 +0000

The greatest problem here in California, i that the water supply is deadly. The chemicals and taste of the water make it impossible to drink. Therefore, bottled water ist he only solution for most of us. I do reuse the bottles until they get to a certain point, then I have to throw them away. However, you can rest assured that in Southern California, especially the school district, we don’t even recycle. As a teacher, most of my fellow teachers have discussed how many water bottles we see each day, but there is no reinforcement to recycle them. The schools do not supply recycling bins, nor do they care to. Because it is so hot here, we have vending machines on campus, but the students and teachers jsut toss the bottles int he nearest garbage can because there are no receptacles provided.

The city and the state could clean up on recycling if they provided receptacles. That would save the tax payers money and improve the school money situation (as well as clean up our environment.) Unfortunately, the lack of concern comes from the top down, meaning our governor. How many bottles does he recycle? How far is he willing to go to change things and insure for a future for this state? Are you there Mr. Schwartzenegger, Mr. Villaragosa? Admiral Brewer? Make some changes and save the world! Please!

By: tovorinok

tovorinok — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 08:34:49 +0000

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By: JUHN HINES

JUHN HINES — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:18:43 +0000

THE SF IDIOT, FLUORIDE IS MORE TOXIC THAN LEAD. BREAST FEEDING YOU ARE NOT TO USE ANYTHING WITH FLUORIDE IN IT. MESSES WITH THYROID,ENDOCRINE,IQ,NEUROTOXIC AND HIP FRACTURES. I AM GETTING THE PICTURE THAT “ALL” ADDTIVIES,COLORING ETC ARE TOXIC WASTE AND THEY MAKE MONEY OR SAVE BY PUTTING IT IN OUR FOODS,DRINKS,SHAMPOO ETC.
IF DRUG COMPANIES PROMOTE IT, GOVENMENT PROMOTE IT
AND I CRAVE IT

I STAY AWAY FROM IT………..

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:44:51 +0000

I believe that throw away bottles are not a good choice for conservation. Dealing with the waste steam created by throw away bottles are tough for all of us.
People have a choice to use refillable water bottles that can be washed and used again. Most people I speak to do not trust municipal water supplies for drinking water. They feel that municipal systems do not provide clean water and it often tastes chlorine like and smells funny. Municipal water suppliers could do a better job of marketing their product.
However, this is the point in my thinking that is conflicted. How much water would you use to wash your reusable bottle?

By: swedelar

swedelar — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:20:26 +0000

Makes good sense. The plastic bottles use oil and excess water in their manufacture, and they also leak dioxins into the bottled water they contain, let alone the cost of getting rid of them and impact to the environment. With today’s filtering technologies, there’s no reason to avoid tap water. Most people don’t drink bottled water because of the worry of flouride or minerals anyway, but just because it’s the yuppie thing to do.

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 13:36:04 +0000

The High Priests of Political Correctness strike again. Apparently someone failed to pay the correct bribes, uh, or, purchase carbon credits. Interesting articles on global warming, too..turns out most of the stations measuring ground temperature are improperly installed and maintained, creating false and inflated readings. Global warming may, in fact, be a myth.

By: WILLIAM E BIDDLE

WILLIAM E BIDDLE — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:34:31 +0000

WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT FROM SAN FRANCISCO? TOWN FULL OF WEIRDO’S AND MISFITS. NEXT THE MAYOR WILL PROBLABLY ORDER EVERYONE TO DIG AND HOLE AND SHIT IN IT SO AS TO SAVE MOENY AT THE SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT.

By: nyscof

nyscof — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 12:07:38 +0000

This is good. Now the government officials and agencies who legislate fluoride into the water supply will be forced to drink it themselves.

Fluoride is added to San Francisco’s water supply, not to purify it, but to prevent tooth decay in tap water drinkers. Modern science shows it is ineffective, harmful to health and a waste of tax dollars.

Fluorie chemicals are silicofluorides – waste products of the phosphate fertilizer industry. They are dumped unpurified into the water supply. They are allowed to have trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other contaminnts.

Studies link silicofluorides to children’s higher blood lead levels which, in turn, are linked to higher rates of tooth decay.

The statistics prove that tooth decay is on the rise along with fluoride over dose symptoms – dental fluorosis

So drink up San Francisco and make sure your kids do to. If you are buying bottled water at home to protect your family, you should be protecting all San Franciscans by ending water fluoridation.

By: Will

Will — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:00:20 +0000

A way for the city to save the taxpayer dollar, but they will turn around and waste that dollar in some other area.. Put some of the homeless out there going through the trash and save from dumping it in a landfill. A trash to energy plant works fine. Tell the EPA to let companies get into recylcing certain items rather than to have it dumped into a site and buried in cement. That being car batteries after the lead is removed. The housings could be remolded for other car batteries. We are a wasteful nation.