NEW YORK — Bottled water lately has been a hot media topic, and is now reaching down into news sources aimed at grade-school children.
The author uses that as a starting point to highlight other issues surrounding the bottles themselves, such as their production and where they go when they are empty.
Laura Spanjian of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission said in the article, “We must all do our part to reduce our carbon footprint and our impact on the environment. This is really a movement. And San Francisco wants citizens and students in other cities to be leaders of a movement to change how people think about bottled water.”
The article notes that Salt Lake City Mayor Ross Anderson asked its 2,500 city employees to voluntarily stop buying bottled water.
Patrick Thronson, communications director for Mayor Anderson, said in the Scholastic News Online article, “We are raising awareness [about] the serious environmental issues [related] to using bottled water.”
The article, which notes how many water bottles end up in landfills and not recycling centers, includes comment from the International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) regarding a need for a greater push to recycle all consumer packaging.
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