Plastic buggy baby bottles to be banned in Boston?
By adamg - 5/26/08 - 8:59 pm
The City Council holds a hearing on Thursday on Bisphenol A, a chemical used in many plastic bottles (Nalgene, anyone) that might not be all that good for your health. Councilors could try to ban bottles made with the chemical.
Michael Pahre will tell you way more than you thought you'd need to know about the chemical - and why the council is taking up a matter normally under the purview of the federal Food and Drug Administration.
The hearing, organized by at-large Councilor John Connolly, starts at 3 p.m. in the Ianella Chamber, fifth floor, City Hall.
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If only we could do
If only we could do something about the morons who spend $1.35 for .02 worth of water.
"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public."
No, that's the problem
The bottles that commercial bottled water come in are fine, but the clear plastic water bottles that people use to carry water in may have Bisphenol A in them. So those of us who would like to eschew bottled water and BYOB have a problem.
Also, I believe the bottles used in bubblers are suspect.
I don't like the taste of the tap water around here, so we use a Brita filter at home. But carrying water on the road is a problem.
Besides the inanity of
Besides the inanity of buying water in little bottles, I still don't understand the need to carry water everywhere. Unless I'm going where I'll need water were there's not much around (hiking, beach), I'm able to survive just fine in the great urban desert without toting around a bottle of water. If I get thirsty, I manage to stay alive long enough to find something to drink -- usually for free from a good ol' bubblah.
Lemmings
Lemmings read in their fitness magazine that all people must drink
gallons and gallonseight to ten glasses of water every day! or theyturn into dust!will inevitably become dehydrated. And so they drag around bottles and swig from them constantly.People with a few more brain cells question the math, and maybe even look it up on a credible source like Snopes. From a credible source, they will find that the "eight glasses of water" idea is a self-perpetuating myth of unknown origin. People will really be just fine if they have a drink of water when they get home, unless they're running a marathon or something.
Hmm... who advertises in fitness magazines? Could they really be supported in part by corporations selling useless crap? Useless crap like Sports Drinks? They're even better for the massive plague of dehydration that water! Because they've got electrolytes!
Little Bottles
I still have about a half-case around. They are left over from kitchen renovations. The bigger bottles we also used are considered to be "camping gear" now.
The little bottles are issued to youngsters for their lunch boxes. I typically give them each one a week. They like to refill them from the drinking fountains at school, and I top them off with filtered water from our fridge dispenser when I pack lunches.
By Friday they are dented, bashed, banged, abused, stepped on, etc. and ready for recycling.
When my eldest started school, I had little choice but to send in a bottle with him. The drinking fountains had been removed from the junky old school and they had those office-like dispensers that required a bottle for him to fill up. The school didn't supply cups.
Take a breath, and read
Take a breath, and read this:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/5179/