In Bundanoon, an Australian town in New South Wales, drinking water from plastic bottles has been banned to return to the use of recyclable containers to be filled at the tap or drinking fountains
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThe 2500 souls of an Australian town in New South Wales - to be precise Bundanoon, which already the name has fairytale assonances - today they ended up on the pages of all newspapers and web magazines. The reason is obvious. The city council of this resort town in southwestern Sydney voted (350 votes in favor and two against) the ban on drinking water from plastic bottles to return touse of recyclable containers to be filled at the tap or at the drinking fountains.
Yes, because the ban will immediately be accompanied by the construction of more fountains along the main road of the village from which only public water will gush.
The reason for the decision, which, among other things, according to local environmentalists, is the first in the world, is the concern of the inordinate resources needed to extract the water, bottle it and transport the bottles.
Tourists will be exempt from the ban, and in any case they will be encouraged to fill empty bottles at the village fountains.
Finally, it seems that the choice of Bundanoon has inspired the government of New South Wales, of which Sydney is the capital, and on Thursday Prime Minister Nathan Rees would have ordered all departments and state agencies to stop buying bottled water. in favor of tap water.
Germana Carillo
