We ask that people attend town meeting, keeping their minds open to hearing another approach to providing drinking water.
The EPA has calculated that only about 30 percent of our plastic recyclables get to a processing plant.
At least half of the water in PET plastic bottles is filtered tap water.
Great Barrington’s town water is excellent.
See filters for this purpose locally at Carr Hardware and on the internet.
Concord, Massachusetts, began a similar ban on the sale of PET plastic water bottles on January 1, 2013.
Economics: We are extremely concerned that small merchants not suffer from this change.
The customer would purchase a compostable cup and lid from the merchant.
Great Barrington will set a model for area and regional towns to follow for similar bans.
It’s up to us to make these critical decisions now.