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Plastic bottle ban will protect environment, human health
In a letter to the editor, Emily Norton of the Sierra Club writes, “Plastic bottles are not fully recycled by turning them into more bottles, but rather into unrecyclable products such as fleece. “
Egremont Green News: Join the push for renewable energy
Fighting climate change can mean everything from sealing up drafty houses and driving an electric vehicle to keeping up with a fossil-free push that is gaining steam worldwide.
Environmental activists want to ban the sale of popular water bottles
If it passes at town meeting, the GB On Tap program intends to provide additional drinking fountains and bottle refilling stations throughout town. In addition, it will help participating merchants and restaurants offer refillable water bottles for sale.
Barrington board urges Gov. Baker to consider public health risks of fracked natural gas pipelines
“The Sierra Club is opposed to additional fossil fuel infrastructure out of the widely held scientific view that we must move as rapidly as possible away from fossil fuel energy, and that if we don’t, human society will face cataclysmic impacts.”
— Emily Norton, chapter director of the Massachusetts Sierra Club
The Bottle Bill: An Ongoing Battle
According to the Massachusetts Sierra Club, the added incentive of a nickel deposit has enabled 35 billion bottles to be recycled in the Commonwealth.