By SHARON LEM, SUN MEDIA
From the Toronto Sun - The next time you throw away your empty water bottle, you might want to shoot for the blue bin.
As few as 50% of water bottles Torontonians consume everyday are actually being recycled.
That means as many as 65 million empty plastic water bottles per year end up [...]
Posted by admin on 04.01.2010 at 8:52 pm// Tagged: Government, Waste , garbage, landfill
From CBS 42 Austin: Buying a plastic water bottle at Austin City Hall could be a thing of the past after a vote Thursday by council members.
The water that was once inside them quenched untold numbers of thirsty mouths. But plastic bottles that remain as refuse to go away. The petroleum-based products often end up [...]
Posted by admin on 03.22.2010 at 2:28 pm// Tagged: Government , austin, ban