"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
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>
> When I was a kid there were drinking fountains everywhere. Now
> they're hard to find. Stores and restaurants want you to buy water.
> I could order from a fast food place and get a glass of water. Now
> they want to sell you a bottle. At best they want to charge you for a
> cup. I see people on the bus, the train, in their cars, jogging,
> shopping, and it seems everyone has a bottle of water!!!
>
> Where do they think all the plastic is going?
>
> Now the Chicago city idiots have seen a reason to tax these bottles.
> $.05 a bottle. Rather that implement a better recycling program they
> just want to make the extra 10.5 million per year in revenue. If they
> made a deposit on them litter would be eliminated. But that would
> make too much sense.
>
> How does your state or country deal with this? Do you buy bottles of
> water? Do you at least recycle them?
>
> Here's an article from today's Chicago Tribune. Some silly stuff
> he
>
> http://tinyurl.com/27vmgf
>
I buy bottled water and I recycle the bottles. Here, recycling is
mandatory.