{"id":8650,"date":"2016-02-25T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/?p=8650"},"modified":"2016-02-25T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T12:32:12","slug":"san-francisco-plastic-bottles-banned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecobnb.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/san-francisco-plastic-bottles-banned\/","title":{"rendered":"In San Francisco plastic bottles are banned"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco<\/strong> bans plastic<\/strong> bottles,<\/strong> and it’s\u00a0the first city to do so. The citizens, though encouraged to use clean and free tap water, can still purchase plastic bottles; but in public buildings and properties of the city plastic bottles will become illegal in a few days.
\nIn the United States each year are used almost\u00a050 million plastic bottles <\/strong>and, according to reports from the Campaign Ban the bottle, only 23% is recycled<\/strong>. They are scary numbers, whereas the production of plastic bottles requires about 17 million barrels of oil<\/strong> a year.<\/p>\n

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The plastics industry<\/strong> is one of the most polluting industries in the world, consuming as much oil as that used by the airline industry, according to the 2016 report of the World Economic Forum<\/strong>. And if the forecasts tell us that over the next few years we’ll use more and more plastic, it is clear the need to do something to change<\/strong> things and to reverse these trends to save our earth and our oceans<\/strong>. To date we are not able to recycle any plastic packaging, but only 5%<\/strong> of them and only once, as opposed to glass and aluminum<\/strong> which can be recycled indefinitely<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\nWhat San Francisco is doing\u00a0is a momentous decision, but it is not the first time that the city of California is mentioned\u00a0for its vanguard in the field of sustainability<\/strong>. To reach the goal of zero waste by 2020<\/strong> the city has long since started to improve things, starting with the promotion<\/strong> of composting<\/strong> and recycling.<\/strong> Currently 80% of the waste<\/strong> no longer goes into local landfills, but they are processed and recycled<\/strong> by Recology.<\/p>\n

Think of all the supermarkets of our cities, with the shelves always filled with plastic bottles when most of us can use of tap water. Think how much useless<\/strong> plastic<\/strong>\u00a0we produce. Although the decision to San Francisco to ban plastic bottles in public buildings represent only a small step towards a zero waste city, our hope is that all the cities of the world will follow the example<\/strong> of the Californian city.<\/p>\n

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