Quote (Arsenic_Touch @ 23 Aug 2017 13:28)
He's seriously a captain planet villain. You know what their counter argument was? other soft drinks weren't banned. Failing to acknowledge that the majority of the litter consisted of plastic water bottles, (which is why they were targeted)
No worries though, the parks will have plenty of money to help clean up... oh wait, he wants to cut their funding too. Oh but he donated his check that one time.. or so he claims... haha.
Also gotta love him putting a stop to the study by the National Academy of Sciences for the potential health risks for people living near mountaintop coal-removing sites in Central Appalachia.
I somewhat scanned the article at work. If it invokes unfair competition between brands then it should be changed imo. Or those water bottles would only be switched to soda bottles. Instead of dismantling legislation it should have been improved.
The article reminded me of the Horton plains in Sri Lanka. You can buy drinks at the start of the hike. They will have you throw away everything with plastic wrappings (food). You can have a plastic bottle, but just 1 and you need to remove the plastic label before starting the hike. The strict rules creates a sort of realization about the importance of national parks to not be contaminated by your trash. That's half of the work, water refill points are great to not make bottles disposable.
This post was edited by Knaapie on Aug 23 2017 08:53am