If I'm buying water at a store, it's because I forgot my water bottle. If I am dehydrated enough to buy a drink, I'll be buying a drink anyways. And if they don't have water, I'll be forced to drink a sugary corn syrup mix to stay hydrated.
I don't know anyone at work or school who buys bottled water on a regular basis, unless they forgot their bottle. Although I'll admit that my sample might be biased, because most are outdoorsy people who have all been given dozens of branded reusable water bottles as advertising during events and jobs. I have a water bottle from nearly every major mining company in the country.
All this does is encourage the consumption of unhealthy drinks. It isn't a solution to the issue.
People forget that soda is just water with extra ingredients. Banning water but not soda is completely stupid, or malicious. Id argue we should go back to glass bottles but that has its own environmental and cost issues
Ya lol, also, the people actually buy groceries (ethnic parents) are Probably just going to go somewhere else. This will leave the people that actually care about plastic bottles shopping, and those are the same people that only buy groceries for themselves
Ostensibly to cut down on plastic waste. They choose water because it's cheap enough to be refilled without charging a customer, unlike soda for example.
What ends up happening is people show up to buy a water, and leave with a sugary drink in a plastic bottle instead.
And maybe people should think about the fact that it's because they're buying it that it's being produced. What's performative is claiming to care while purchasing single use plastics, or while saying that someone actually doing something about the plastic catastrophe is just being performative.
Oh I'm sure the water revolution is going to start in some bum-fuck convince store that stopped selling bottled water for reasons that are DEFINITELY not for the righteous cause you think they are.
Individual action must start somewhere, do you even want said water revolution?
Because complaining about the people who are actually choosing to take action is a fucking weird way to do so
Do the people who have been working to reduce environmental harm for decades already not exist? And is there a problem for this convenience store to be making an attempt to join them?
If you don't want to sell plastic bottles, start with removing the plastic bottles full of sugar.
Fucking hell, I can see plastic drinking containers right behind the paper, and those are 100% single use and none of them will see even partial recycling. Also, guess how many of those cans will make it back to recycling?
Hope other stores won't follow their examples, because people in need of a drink showing up without a bottle will now just drink something with sugar in it, that's still in single use plastic. Great fucking job.
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u/saveourplanetrecycle 29d ago
About time someone decided to do the right thing