Plastic bottles banned from North Carolina landfills
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North Carolina news outlet Fox 8 reports through a video and news article that beginning Oct. 1, a new law will take effect that bans plastic bottles from landfills in that state. The law is aimed at water bottles, milk jugs, soda bottles, shampoo bottles, and juice bottles. Excluded from the ban are food trays, plastic buckets, flower pots, and crates.
Fox 8 reports that Waste Management, the company that manages Winston-Salem, NC’s recycling program, says that its trucks bring in six to eight tons of plastic every year. Each year, the city recycles more than 500 tons of plastic bottles.
Enforcement of the new law will be directed at haulers that show up at landfills with big loads of banned materials.
North Carolina is the first state in the southeast U.S. to pass such a plastic bottle ban.
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Does anyone know how N.C. is treating motor oil bottles?
I think this is unfair. It seems the "prevailing" notions are always "the intentions" -- when is this going to stop?!
Years ago, first it's stop cutting the trees, use plastic. Then because of the banning of "controlled cutting," forests got too thick, and as we all know, because of lightning strikes, forests have burned out of control, because fire fighters couldn't get through dense forests and stop fires.
Now it's the same with plastic. Stop using plastic, now what's the unintentional result of this going to be? Why aren't we holding responsible these people whose good "intentions" cause misery for so many? How come we can't hold them to a higher standard as well?
That's funny by saying "The forrest gets too think". Have you ever think about how many plastics are going into ocean every year? Just type in "The Pacific Gyre" in Goolge and looked at the problem yourself. Huge amount of marine lives died from this. Plastic contaminants travel up to food chain towards human and cause cancer. I'm just a passer-by of this website but really cant help fighting you back dude.
We all know disposable water bottles are wasteful and bad for the environment, yet their production is growing rapidly everywhere. Just 20 years ago the market for plastic water bottles was practically nonexistent, but today we produce billions of these completely unnecessary products. There can be only one sane response, plastic water bottles must be banned!
http://www.selfdestructivebastards.com/2009/10/water-bottle-manifesto.html
Passing laws will do little to stop this problem. We of this era have a learned behavior pattern. We waste without thought. The only way to change our nasty habits is through the next generation. Why not use kids' television channels to brainwash them into recycling and not wasting? Instead of mind numbing toy, electronics and food commercials push ecology. Teach it in schools, etc.
If you need more ways/ideas to better our environmental habits offer rewards.The government could give money to the city that reduces its waste the most.
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