Concord, Mass: First Town in The Country to Ban The Sale of Bottled Water

As our friend Jean Hill fought long and strong for two years to ban the sale of plastic bottled water within her hometown, the Town Meeting attendees voted in the passing of the bylaw that supported Hill’s cause. The article below, issued by the local Concord newspaper, goes into detail about the Town Meeting’s guts and controversy. Way to go Jean!

Concord residents voted to become the first town in the country to ban the sale of single-serving PET bottled water on Wednesday night.

Notes: Antimony, which is found in PET plastic bottles, in small doses can cause dizziness and depression; in larger doses it can cause nausea, vomiting and death.

It takes 17 million barrels of oil per year to make all the plastic water bottles used in the U.S. alone. That's enough oil to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year.

The recommended eight glasses of water a day, at U.S. tap rates equals about $.49 per year; that same amount of bottled water is about $1,400.