The City of Hamilton will try to deter people from buying sugary drinks at arenas and rec centres.
Hamilton city council voted 9-6 Wednesday to offer healthier, more eco-friendly options at its facilities.
The goal, they said, is to steer people away from sodas and bottled water, and encourage them to drink tap water instead.
But while Coun.
"I’m not on for that ban," said Jackson.
"Read the language here.
It’s about telling volunteers to do their best to eliminate the sale of bottled water."
It will group food and drink in the categories of green, yellow and red according to Canada’s Food Guide.
"There will also be a continued focus on reducing reliance on bottled water, and ensuring sugary drinks won’t be positioned more prominently than water," the city said.
Matthew Green, Ward 3 councillor, said he was ready to call for an outright ban right now on bottled water and sugary drinks.

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 24 – The Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) says 158 water bottling firms are still operating without valid product certification marks and have failed to meet required standards for bottled water.
KEBS Managing Director, Charles Ongwae says the firms are operating from unknown locations and do not comply with the requirements of the relevant water standards such as the code of hygiene The firms are also using suspect sources of water with poor and misleading labeling.
“KEBS is ready to support these firms get their water certified because we are not in the business of closing industries, but facilitating the growth of fair professional business operations and trade practices,” said Ongwae.
In 2016, KEBS suspended the operations of 369 water bottling companies which it says pose health risks to consumers.
Ongwae was speaking with over 350 players in the bottled water sector where he took them through the new requirements in bottling water.
All old applicants will be required to have in place an automated bottle filling and sealing mechanism within six months, however, new applicants will be required to have automation before they start a business.
In addition, KEBS has agreed to increase the validity period of Standardization Mark from one year to three years.
KEBS has issued 11,234 permits out of which 671 are for bottled water.
So far there are 426 firms with valid permits in the water sector with another 49 other firms have applied for permits but have not completed the certification process.

Based on a decade of water law and policy research, I believe that Michigan should either collect taxes on companies like Nestlé that harvest water or significantly raise the fees water bottlers must pay.
But Michigan does not tax bottled water production.
Lucido estimates that Nestlé would have to pay $20 million in taxes if his legislation were to become law.
The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave Michigan’s infrastructure a D+ grade, estimating that the state underfunds drinking water systems by as much as $563 million per year.
Public resource, private use When state authorities sought public feedback, more than 80,000 Michiganders called on the state to deny Nestlé’s permit and only 75 people said they supported it.
This contentious permit probably sparked more public outrage than it might have had the state not granted it the same week it announced that it would stop providing free bottled water to Flint residents impacted by a water crisis.
Other states like Connecticut and Maine collect fees for bottled water production.
Chicago’s tax, designed to reduce plastic pollution by discouraging bottled water sales, generates about $10.5 million in annual revenue for the city and offers a model other communities may want to replicate.
This new ombudsman would carefully study the potential water conservation and revenue generation benefits from taxing bottled water.
As long as private companies are selling Michigan’s water, I believe, the state should at least tap portion of their profits to fund public water infrastructure improvements and wetland restoration.

It’s hard to remember in the wake of consistently traumatizing daily news, but the people of Flint, Michigan are still without clean water.
The Flint water crisis first began in 2014 when the water source for the city was changed to the Flint River.
For further context, research conducted by Virginia Tech has concluded that the water in Flint is 19 times more corrosive than the water in Detroit, carrying toxic levels of lead, meaning it is definitely unsafe to drink or to cook with.
More than 100,000 residents have been exposed to lead, and so far, 15 deaths have been caused by the conditions.
Despite Michigan ending their free bottled water program in April, claiming Flint’s water quality is safer, residents and experts are still skeptical.
President 45’s inaction around this issue likely adds to Flint residents continuing to fear what has become their new normal.
Related | Jaden Smith Is Releasing a Sustainable Denim Line Enter celebrity father-son duo Will and Jaden Smith (with some assistance from mom Jada), and their new eco-friendly organization JUST WATER, which aims to donate water to the area.
So far, they have donated 9,200 bottles to the city.
JUST WATER’s other initiative include producing classroom furniture from used water bottles and reducing plastic and carbon dioxide emissions globally, making it clear that this isn’t just a celebrity vanity project, but something aiming to fix what our current climate-denying administration apparently can’t be bothered to address.
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A Montreal opposition city councillor is trying ban the bottle in municipal buildings.
Francesco Miele said he will propose a motion at next Monday’s city council meeting that would bar the use of bottled water in city-run buildings.
Miele pointed to a similar measure adopted in St-Laurent and said the city needs to set an example.
“Obviously, we need to increase the number of water fountains available to citizens.” While concessions would be made, such as stockpiling bottled water in case of an emergency, the motion would see bottled water banned from being sold and their use restricted in arenas, sports complexes, libraries and other municipal buildings.
Miele said any ban would be gradual, with measurable goals that would see the use of single-used plastic slowly phased out.
He added that residents would have to adjust to not being able to buy the plastic bottles by bringing their own reusable containers.
“We need to remind ourselves that over 700 million bottles are estimated to be in our landfills in Quebec annually,” he said.
“There’s a cost to collect, a cost to actually recycle them,” he said.
“When you add up every single step from the moment we use our bottle to the moment it’s actually recycled, there’s millions of dollars taxpayer s are paying for that.” Karel Menard, head of the Coalition of Ecological Waste Management, said the motion is “a good first start,” but more needs to be done.
“Montreal should reaffirm its willingness to have a deposit system on water bottles, that would have been a lot better,” he said.

Based on the 2017 Annual Poverty Indicators Survey, the PSA said 4 in 10 families, or 38.6 percent of households, have their drinking water obtained from water-refilling stations.
The PSA added that only 2 in 10 families (20.3 percent) have their drinking water piped into their dwelling, while 12 percent obtained their drinking water from tube wells or boreholes.
“Results show that there are some families who are unable to access sufficient quantities of drinking water either because it is not available from source [5.7 percent], water is too expensive [1.4 percent], or water source is not accessible [1.1 percent],” the PSA said.
For the poorest, their most common potable water sources are water-refilling stations at 17.6 percent of households; tube wells/boreholes, 17.2 percent; piped into their dwellings, 12.3 percent; and, piped into yards/plots, 10.2 percent.
For the upper 70 percent, water- refilling stations are their primary source with 47.5 percent households getting potable water from these establishments; piped into their dwellings, 23.7 percent; and 9.8 percent obtaining water from tube wells/boreholes.
Meanwhile, almost all, or 95 percent of Filipino families, have improved sources of drinking water.
Improved water resource classifications are being used in the Updates and Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Baselines for 2017.
Improved source, however, is different from safe source.
The SDGs or Global Goals is a set of 17 socioeconomic goals that 193 United Nation member-countries like the Philippines committed to meet by 2030.
The goals are composed of around 169 targets and over 300 global indicators.

Their aim is to collect 90 percent of all PET bottles by 2025 as an EU average, ensuring discarded plastic containers can be converted into rPET.
The federation will also collaborate with the recycling industry to only use 25 percent rPET of new bottles by 2025, highlighting the industry’s commitment to closing the circular economy.
The EFBW, which represents Europe’s bottled water producers, pointed out that all packaging used by the industry is recyclable including its glass, PET and aluminium.
EFBW president Jean-Pierre Deffis said: “Building on our longstanding sustainable approach to resource management, we are committed to achieving these industry-wide actions.
PET drink bottles already achieve the highest recycling rate of any plastic packaging material in the EU.
But even one bottle ending up as litter is one too many.
“It will take a concerted, coordinated effort from many different value-chain actors to drive positive change.
Recyclers are eager to embark on this new journey.
Today PET recyclers do not have enough feedstock to supply the market.
EFBW members will also engage with consumers, who play a vital role in preventing littering, while supporting initiatives to encourage the proper disposal of PET packaging.

Researchers at the State University of New York at Fredonia tested 259 individual bottles from 27 different lots across 11 major brands in nine countries.
They found 93 percent of the water showed “some sign” of contamination.
Scientists found 10.4 percent of plastic particles per one liter of water, which is twice as much as a previous study on tap water found.
Leading international brands in the study included Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life, and San Pellegrino.
Polypropylene, nylon and polyethylene terephthalate were among the contaminants found in the water.
Data suggests contamination is at least partially coming from the packaging and the bottling process itself, according to researchers.
At this time, researchers are not clear if consuming the particles will have any health effects.
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That water bottle you just purchased is likely contaminated with microplastic particles, according to a new investigation from researchers at the State University of New York at Fredonia and journalism organization Orb Media.
Through an analysis of 259 water bottles from 11 brands sold across nine countries, including the United States, scientists found 93 percent were contaminated with an average of 10.4 plastic particles per liter of water.
That’s twice the amount of contamination typically found in tap water.
Tests on major brands of bottled water have found that nearly all of them contained tiny particles of plastic https://t.co/24xphZnUjl #BBCNewsTen pic.twitter.com/MLw67mQp2r — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) March 14, 2018 Major brand names such as Aquafina, Dasani, Evian, Nestle Pure Life and San Pellegrino were among the water bottles tested.
"In this study, 65 percent of the particles we found were actually fragments and not fibers," lead researcher Sherri Mason told AFP.
The particles are likely a result of the industrial bottling and plastic packaging process.
But the effects of these chemicals on human health, scientists say, are still unclear.
“As much as 90 percent of ingested plastic could pass through a human body, but some of it may end up lodged in the gut, or traveling through the lymphatic system, according to research by the European Food Safety Authority,” Time reported.
Previous research has linked synthetic chemicals often found in plastic to “certain kinds of cancer to lower sperm count to increases in conditions like ADHD and autism,” Mason said, prompting calls for further studies on the possible health implications of plastics pollution.
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The large beverage companies maintain that the impacts of more plastic circulating around the world can be mitigating by through better recycling programs, as well packaging innovations such as plant-based PET bottles.
“PepsiCo is already one of the largest purchasers of recycled PET in the consumer goods industry,” said Roberta Barbieri, vice president of global water and environmental solutions at PepsiCo in Purchase, N.Y. “We have set a goal that, by 2025, 100 percent of our packaging will be designed to be recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable.” Two Words: Plastic Pollution Despite the amount of shade being cast at bottled water, the industry keeps booming.
That global number could could surge to a 324 billion by 2021, according to the market research firm Euromonitor “All of that plastic takes a tremendous amount of fossil fuels to make,” said Peter Gleick, president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, an environmental group largely focused on water and climate.
Glieck told Bloomberg Environment it takes about 25 million barrels of oil per year just to produce the polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic used in most single-used bottles.
“We need to find better materials to make bottles that include recycled and renewable content, and of course reduce environmental impacts by making fewer disposable bottles in the first place,” Darby Hoover, senior resource specialist with the Natural Resources Defense Council in San Francisco, told Bloomberg Environment.
“Right now, the recycling rate for the plastics used in these bottles is only about 30 percent, meaning that 70 percent still ends up in landfills.
Bottle vs.
“They more they take, the more it creates this wedge between people and their municipal drinking water supply.” Kirkwood pointed out that bottled water companies compete directly with municipal systems and cost hundreds of times more than tap water.
Companies Push Back But beverage companies reject the idea that bottled water represents a kind of existential threat to tap water.
Some nations are forced to import water when domestic sources are not potable or are insufficient for immediate needs, as is the case in some Pacific Islands during drought.