Did I mention that I can't stand Keep America Beautiful and its various green-washing and corporate handholding tactics? [photo from Rachael Adkin on Flickr]
At one point (or maybe even now) they lobbied against efforts and initiatives to increase in-store beverage recycling efforts. Part of their (crummy) argument was that it would be burdensome for the consumer to lug their water and soda bottles to the store for the pennies they would recieve for the recyclables. Truth is, any and all recycling methods, used in conjunction, actually helps to encourage people to recycle more. And since people are going to the store anyway, doesn't it make sense to just bring your recyclables to the store where you purchased it from?
A better way is reduce or have an alternative method to drink stuff from. Like not drinking bottled water and limiting or eliminating single serving non-biodegradable disposables. From now on, I'm not going to either buy any more water bottles or buy single serving plastic beverage containers.
Back to KAB. Part of their corporate sponsors include: Anheuser-Busch, Philip-Morris, Clorox Company, PepsiCo, Wrigley Jr. Co, Coca-Cola Co, Sherwin-Williams, Office Depot, Dow Chemical, etc. etc. You get the point. You can see their entire list here. Why is Whole Foods there?
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