Vancouver Pushing Bottled Water During Olympics

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In 2007, Americans consumed over 50 billion single serve bottles of water; between 30 and 40 million single serve bottles went into landfills each year.
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Vancouver Pushing Bottled Water During Olympics

Date: February 10th, 2010 | Author: Jo Henson
Posted in Uncategorized

bottled-water2 The tug-of-war occurring right now with the City of Vancouver and the Olympics is very interesting. If you remember, Vancouver was one of the first cities to Ban Bottled Water (setting off a fabulous trend, if I do say so myself). And with the Olympics starting in 3-days Vancouver is choosing to hit back against Coca-Cola (a major sponsor of the Olympics) who is selling bottled water during the Olympics thus violating the city-wide ban.