Most people don’t know they can request free drinking water in bars. It’s leading to mass consumption of plastic water bottles and environmental disasterBack when I was a kid,being made to drink tap water was tantamount to being force-fed weed killer from a broken jam jar. It was our one and only drink option in the school canteen, normally poured from a battered tin jug that had probably been retrieved from the wreckage after the school was bombed during the blitz.
There were drinking fountains in the school toilets as well, or which were only ever used a) in the summer term and b) following some particularly strenuous physical activity such as a 15-a-side football match or the mass hysteria that was unleashed after a stray dog had encroached on to the playground (the latter being the very best thing ever about school). Related: New Zealand exasperate as pristine lakes tapped for bottled water market We’re creating huge plastic mountain ranges that are choking the planet and littering the streetsContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com