According to the New York Times, 11/10/11, CokaCola used its influence through the National Parks Foundation (those people who send you requests for donations to the national parks about this time each year), to kill a NPS- proposed ban on plastic bottles in Grand Canyon NP. Plastic bottles- largely through sale of disposable bottles of water, Gator Aide and the like, comprise 30% of the solid waste at GC, according to the NPS. The Grand Canyon National Park staff sought to follow similar bans at at the Utah parks to cut down on waste and disposal loads. Coke's Dasani brand of water would suffer from such a ban, which it made known through the NP Foundation, to whom it contributes each year. Results: the bottle ban was quashed by the Director of Parks in Washington.
I hate bottled water. It represents the privatization (through corporate ownership) of formerly public water resources. All such water goes into those ubiquitous plastic bottles, which get buried in landfills or incinerated in a cloud of ethylene chloride, hydrochloric acid, carbon monoxide and CO2.
Arrrggghhh!!!
I hate bottled water. It represents the privatization (through corporate ownership) of formerly public water resources. All such water goes into those ubiquitous plastic bottles, which get buried in landfills or incinerated in a cloud of ethylene chloride, hydrochloric acid, carbon monoxide and CO2.
Arrrggghhh!!!
