By Rich Bowden
Img: Plastic bottles. Credit: Shazari/flickr
The southern New South Wales town of Bundanoon, which found itself on the world map recently by banning the sale of bottled water, (see story here) is set to benefit by up to $A2.5 million, according to a well-known environmental campaigner.
Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), "Clean Up Australia" environmental chairman Ian Kiernan said the southern highlands township of Bundanoon would benefit financially from being the first community in the world to ban bottled water at a vote taken at a town meeting earlier this month.
Calling it a "sign of things to come" Kiernan said: "Bundanoon's move is a sign of things to come ... communities are going to start taking matters into their own hands," he said.
The ABC quoted Clean Up Australia as saying people can save up to $A1,000 a year by using tap water instead of bottled water and save in carbon emissions.
"The manufacture of every tonne of PET [polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle production] produces around three tonnes of carbon dioxide," he said.
"Australians purchase about 118,000 tonnes of plastic drink bottles a year but only recycle 35 per cent of them," he said.
"The 76,700 tonnes left behind either goes to landfill or ends up in our environment as rubbish."
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Img: Plastic bottles. Credit: Shazari/flickr
The southern New South Wales town of Bundanoon, which found itself on the world map recently by banning the sale of bottled water, (see story here) is set to benefit by up to $A2.5 million, according to a well-known environmental campaigner.
Speaking to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), "Clean Up Australia" environmental chairman Ian Kiernan said the southern highlands township of Bundanoon would benefit financially from being the first community in the world to ban bottled water at a vote taken at a town meeting earlier this month.
Calling it a "sign of things to come" Kiernan said: "Bundanoon's move is a sign of things to come ... communities are going to start taking matters into their own hands," he said.
The ABC quoted Clean Up Australia as saying people can save up to $A1,000 a year by using tap water instead of bottled water and save in carbon emissions.
"The manufacture of every tonne of PET [polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle production] produces around three tonnes of carbon dioxide," he said.
"Australians purchase about 118,000 tonnes of plastic drink bottles a year but only recycle 35 per cent of them," he said.
"The 76,700 tonnes left behind either goes to landfill or ends up in our environment as rubbish."
View Bundanoon New South Wales in a larger map
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