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A thought exercise: Sugary bottled drinks are even worse for the environment. They not only have the same bottles and water involved but they also have other in
by AnotherGoodName 6y ago
A thought exercise: Sugary bottled drinks are even worse for the environment. They not only have the same bottles and water involved but they also have other ingredients that add even more environmental consequences. They have public health consequences too.
But of course to ban sugary drinks would cut into the realm of personal choice right? After all people may choose to want a sugary beverage. So no one argues that case.
Still it's weird to draw the line at bottled water and not further along. I used to live near a council area (Manly City Council) that banned bottled water. It meant you could only buy sugary drinks at the local corner store. Go to the beach and forget your water bottle? You better like Coca-Cola because that's all they'll sell you!
I'm not opposed to encouraging people to use a re-usable container. But i am opposed to a ban on something that's far better than the alternatives that remain unbanned.
- tayo42 6y agoThe better ban would be to ban drinks sold in single use containers. > ban sugary drinks would cut into the realm of personal choice right? if you're talking about environmental effects then its no longer a personal choice issue.
- caturopath 6y agoSoft drinks, booze, etc. are really harmful, but at least they have a value add that makes shipping them around coherent. Bottled water is a different matter. Obviously we should be discouraging the use of soda and alcohol and such.
- josho 6y ago> Go to the beach and forget your water bottle? You better like Coca-Cola because that's all they'll sell you! Your comment reveals your age. The parent and myself are old enough to remember a time when you could go to numerous public places and drink from a water fountain. It also showcases just how far we've fallen as a society and have settled to create profit seeking solutions at the expense of what is best for society.
- aksss 6y agoPart of that "fall of society" has been the fact that people don't always trust their fellow citizens to upkeep the sanitation of public facilities. I can think of plenty of places where, even if they had a public fountain, I wouldn't touch it. It's not always some great capitalist conspiracy. https://www.today.com/food/video-woman-licking-container-blue-bell-ice-cream-goes-viral-t157648 https://www.today.com/food/video-woman-licking-container-blu...
- pathseeker 6y agoDrink water out of the tap like a civilized person.
- AnotherGoodName 6y agoUnfortunately public taps/fountains seem to be far more rare than drink vending machines in this world of ours.
- lm28469 6y agoI had people visiting from Greece, Poland and Spain asking me if my tap water (Berlin) was safe to drink. You don't have to go to uncivilized parts of the world to get bad tap water.
- lightgreen 6y agoThere are different levels of "safe". For example, in London it's "safe" to drink tap water, it does not contain toxic checmicals of bacteria, but it is calcium rich, and drinking it constantly may be harmful for kidneys.
- liability 6y agoThat's what water softeners are for.