inthered Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 From the Okefenokee Swamp to the Grand Canyon: The following is according to Corinne Ball; and, in part, to the New York Times: Plastic water bottles are the biggest single source of garbage in America's most iconic national park. So the National Parks Service had a plan: ban the sale of plastic water bottles in the Grand Canyon and invest in refillable water stations instead. The park was just weeks from implementing the ban — and then Coca Cola stepped in. According to the New York Times, Coca Cola — which has donated $13 million to national parks — asked the National Park Service to not ban the sale of plastic water bottles. Incredibly, the head of the National Parks Service bowed to Coke, and cancelled the Grand Canyon's bottle ban. Grand Canyon National Park wouldn't be the first to ban the sale of plastic water bottles. In 2008, Zion National Park in Utah banned plastic water bottles. The National Park Service even gave the park an environmental achievement award for eliminating 60,000 plastic bottles from the park in its first year. At my age, just about everything pisses me off! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMc Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Wouldn't be a problem if people weren't ******* lazy slobs. How te hell hard is it to carry out an empty plastic bottle?!! You know it must be a penguin bound down if you hear that terrible screaming and there ain't no other birds around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mokes Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Wouldn't be a problem if people weren't ******* lazy slobs. How te hell hard is it to carry out an empty plastic bottle?!! I'll never get that either. I saw a guy chuck a McDonalds bag out his window a few months ago. Crap flew everywhere. All I could think of is what a giant dick he must be to know. "The toothless, braindead, *********, geriatric mouthbreathers around here love their "safe space". It is the only place in the world where they feel like winners, the gracious thing to do, would be to let them enjoy their delusional reality." -Numbnuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranfordJeff Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Seems like it wasn't too long ago, plastic water bottles were a yuppy thing and the yuppies looked down on those who didn't want to pay for water and carried a jug, now it's the yuppies who look down on those with water bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamcaster Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Seems like it wasn't too long ago, plastic water bottles were a yuppy thing and the yuppies looked down on those who didn't want to pay for water and carried a jug, now it's the yuppies who look down on those with water bottles. I often reuse my "disposable" water bottles, for me it's just bein practical. And it eliminates litter and reduces waste.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dena Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Plastic bottles will never be outlawed as long as there is a bottle tax somewhere. Material abundance without character is the path of destruction. -Thomas JeffersonThere are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. -Soren Kierkegaard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul_M Posted November 20, 2011 Report Share Posted November 20, 2011 Seems like it wasn't too long ago, plastic water bottles were a yuppy thing and the yuppies looked down on those who didn't want to pay for water and carried a jug, now it's the yuppies who look down on those with water bottles. I didn't know that. You must have an " inner yuppie" that reveals such things to you. See you on the big one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TF3 Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Seems like it wasn't too long ago, plastic water bottles were a yuppy thing and the yuppies looked down on those who didn't want to pay for water and carried a jug, now it's the yuppies who look down on those with water bottles. Really? There are still yuppies around? And they are the problem? It's briliant! Who knew? Go fix it answer-man. Weren't you the guy who was gonna turn the Pacific Garbage Patch into gold. I like EVERYONE, except for some people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranfordJeff Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Quote: Originally Posted by TF3 Really? There are still yuppies around? And they are the problem? It's briliant! Who knew? Go fix it answer-man. Weren't you the guy who was gonna turn the Pacific Garbage Patch into gold. If the energy density is anywhere near what the ecotard liars had claimed, it could be profitable to mine it, but once again, the liars prove to be frauds. Did I say yuppies are a problem I don't think so. How about you try to actually read stuff and actually understand it, if possible, before regurgitating another dumb comment onto the tavern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranfordJeff Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Quote: Originally Posted by Paul_M I didn't know that. You must have an " inner yuppie" that reveals such things to you. Not young anymore. upwardly mobile? Not until my boss dies or I find greener pastures, but it would still be just a green pasture, and I kinda like this pasture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishAgain Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 AHHHH back to the OP, it seems retarded that the Feds would bow to KO on something as simple as keeping our parks clean. Some people are just pigs, the houses are dirty, their cars are dirty, they through tras out of their cars with no thought whatsoever. Ban the bottles damit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranfordJeff Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Quote: Originally Posted by FishAgain AHHHH back to the OP, it seems retarded that the Feds would bow to KO on something as simple as keeping our parks clean. Some people are just pigs, the houses are dirty, their cars are dirty, they through tras out of their cars with no thought whatsoever. Ban the bottles damit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishnmagician Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 If Coke donates MORE than it costs for cleanup they made the right choice, if not, then it's a bad choice. but littering sucks, and people with their waterbottles are the WORST offenders right now. people who won't otherwise litter seem to be blind to leaving their empties behind, it makes me sick. Eggy 10-13 LAA 7-14 50-50 2-15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishAgain Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 LOL, no not crazy, you guys highjacked the thread, TF3 says something pointless and you respond. lets talk about bottles in the national park. Good or bad? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BranfordJeff Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Quote: Originally Posted by FishAgain LOL, no not crazy, you guys highjacked the thread, TF3 says something pointless and you respond. lets talk about bottles in the national park. Good or bad? People need to pick up their stuff. Banning them is ridiculous. They make good fuel, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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