Getting off the bottle
It tanked at Winnipeg city council, garnered so-so support elsewhere in the province, but found fans at a trio of local universities.
And with the province now considering changes to its own policies, there may be some fizz left in Manitoba’s bottled water debate.
A few years have passed since the bottled water discussion heated up, focused mainly on the environmental waste of used-and-tossed bottles. Communities like Toronto, Vancouver and Charlottetown have taken steps to ban single-use bottles in some city buildings and Winnipeg briefly weighed the pros and cons of a ban in 2008.
Winnipeg’s proposal was ultimately scrapped, but in 2009 the University of Winnipeg became Canada’s first university to ban bottled water on campus. Two other local universities — Brandon University and the Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface — followed suit. The Winnipeg School Division entered the fray earlier this year when trustee Mike Babinsky proposed a ban on all plastic drink containers, a pitch that was sent off for consultation.
But bottle ban take-up has been limited elsewhere in Manitoba, with only a few communities pledging to eliminate the bottle in favour of tap water.
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