{"id":350,"date":"2011-12-27T15:20:13","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/?p=350"},"modified":"2011-12-27T15:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T23:21:57","slug":"its-tough-to-be-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/2011\/12\/27\/its-tough-to-be-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Tough to be Plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hiking, rafting or cruising up in gas guzzling RV&#8217;s, visitors to the Grand Canyon National P<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/files\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-27-at-3.18.30-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-351\" title=\"Screen shot 2011-12-27 at 3.18.30 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/files\/2011\/12\/Screen-shot-2011-12-27-at-3.18.30-PM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>ark will be out of luck next year when they want to purchase bottled water.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/inhabitat.com\/grand-canyon-national-park-looking-to-ban-the-sale-of-plastic-bottles-in-2012\/\">Inhabit.com <\/a>reports that the park&#8217;s management has been looking to solve the problem of discarded water bottles for a while.\u00a0 The sale of bottled water will be banned in 2012.\u00a0 The Park Service is currently working on offering an alternative\u00a0\u00a0 water sources\u00a0 for users, likely from water fountains, which must be consistently reliable for thirsty tourists.<\/p>\n<p>An interesting and obvious question is &#8216;why hasn&#8217;t this happened sooner?&#8217;.\u00a0 With cities across the US and Canada attempting water bottle bans and surcharges on plastic bags, why hasn&#8217;t one of the most of iconic of natural landmarks taken the lead?\u00a0 Answer:\u00a0 Coca Cola.\u00a0 Coca Cola??\u00a0 Yep, the same company that is currently cuddling up to polar bears on t.v. and selling us Coke in white cans, also makes Dasani water (sold conveniently in vending machines just outside the park).\u00a0 Last year, when plans for the ban were in the works, Coca Cola swooped in with a call to the National Parks director to remind him of the\u00a0 huge\u00a0 financial contributions that Coca Cola made to the park.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hiking, rafting or cruising up in gas guzzling RV&#8217;s, visitors to the Grand Canyon National Park will be out of luck next year when they want to purchase bottled water.\u00a0 Inhabit.com reports that the park&#8217;s management has been looking to solve the problem of discarded water bottles for a while.\u00a0 The sale of bottled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[289521],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ewilliamson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}