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Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 06:11 AM Sep 2017

45 reversed Nat.Park ban that stopped annual waste of 2 million plastic bottles

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/26/national-park-plastics-bottled-water-ban

"A ban on bottled water in 23 national parks prevented up to 2m plastic bottles from being used and discarded every year, a US national park service study found. That is equivalent to up to 326 barrels of oil worth of emissions, 419 cubic yards of landfill space and 111,743lb of plastic, according to the May study.

Despite that, the Trump administration reversed the bottled water ban just three months later, a decision that horrified conservationists and pleased the bottled water industry.

“The bottled water industry has led a years-long campaign against this commonsense policy, all to protect its bottom line,” said Lauren DeRusha Florez, an associate campaign director at Corporate Accountability International.

“The fact that Trump administration officials knew the benefits of this policy back in May but still decided to rescind it last month sure looks to me like the bottled water industry’s lobbying dollars at work,” she said.


The plan to curb pollution in America’s most famous wilderness areas was spurred when arguably its most famous park, the Grand Canyon, banned the sale of plastic water bottles in its gift shops, according to the report. Approximately 331 million people visit US national parks each year.
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The agency started allowing parks to ban bottled water in 2011. Since then, the bottled water industry argued that the ban was unfair and eliminated a healthy beverage option, even though hydration stations with free water were installed in parks.".....(more)



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45 reversed Nat.Park ban that stopped annual waste of 2 million plastic bottles (Original Post) Tanuki Sep 2017 OP
republicans PISSING on America's parks again. Achilleaze Sep 2017 #1
Anyone who says that the 2 parties are the same is lying & has an agenda. Madam45for2923 Sep 2017 #2

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
1. republicans PISSING on America's parks again.
Tue Sep 26, 2017, 06:14 AM
Sep 2017

republicans are out to extract maximum private PROFIT from America's National Parks, and thereby to foul and ultimately destroy them.

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