Thursday, November 10, 2011

Fire National Parks Chief, Boycott Coca-Cola Brands

That's how you deal with the Parks Service capitulation to Coca-Cola by canceling a planned ban plastic bottles from sale at the Grand Canyon.

A disgusting turn of events, but fixable by the administration and consumers, beginning now.


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

A rigorous evaluation of the alternatives will show that plastic bottles are potentially the most environmentally responsible choice. Plastic is made from the waste products from the refining process of turning raw petroleum into convenient fuels and these compounds were just burned off before they became used for plastic production.
Glass bottles are much heavier and greatly increase shipping and handling costs and broken glass bottles form much more of a physical safety hazard than plastic. This leaves us with aluminum which is a metal which requires mining geared specifically for it and is not a by-product of other processes which plastic is. The electrical and strength properties of aluminum make it much more useful in other applications and it seems a waste to use aluminum to contain soft drinks.

The biggest objection to plastic seems to be that it is common and being so, is more visibly abundant when it is improperly disposed of. I see nothing about plastic which would make it more prone to improper disposal than other materials. Blaming the object rather than the action is truly misguided.