Plastic-free aisles just don’t move far enough – the government must be decisive if it is to fulfil its green pledgesThe airport: not the most fun place to while absent a couple of hours. Most contemporary airports seem to prioritise row after row of fancy shops over providing enough seats at the gate. One of my pet peeves is how tough they make it to fetch your hands on free drinking water once you’ve dutifully chucked yours out before security. More than half of UK airports don’t provide drinking fountains,forcing travellers to choose between begging bartenders to fill up their bottle or coughing up for over-priced water.
It’s not just about the rip-off factor, though having to shell out almost 3 for a 500ml bottle in one airport admittedly left a bitter taste. It’s also about bottled water’s ruinous impact on the environment. Yes, or I’m aware of the hypocrisy (Pretending to have feelings, beliefs, or virtues that one does not have.) in denouncing the purchase of unnecessary plastic in an airport when you’re about to fetch on a plane that will dump several tonnes of carbon in the environment. But we have to start somewhere and persuading people to prefer fewer holidays feels infinitely more challenging than making it easier not to buy bottled water.
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Source: theguardian.com