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In 2009, the New South Wales town of Bundanoon voted to become the first town in the world to outlaw bottled water. [16] Its citizens voluntarily chose to ban bottled water in response to a bottling company's desire to sell water from the town's local aquifer, [17] [18] prohibiting the selling or dispensing of bottled water within the town precinct.
In 2016, Sikkim, India's first fully organic state, [297] banned the use of not only packaged drinking water bottles in any government meetings or functions but also food containers made from polystyrene foam all over the state. [298] Himachal Pradesh was the first state to ban plastic bags less than 30 μm.
From the sales of its water, body care, and food products, the company donates funds to safe water, hygiene and sanitation programs, and food security programs in 16 countries. [1] The company has gained attention for its use of public lobbying via mainstream and social media in order to influence supermarket retailers to stock their products.
President and CEO of Nestlé Waters North America (until 2013 [9]) Kim Jeffery responded to several of the questions brought up by the film, stating that the bottles used for the products were safe and that one of the chemicals discovered in the tests, bisphenol A was "in the liners of all canned foods to prevent botulism, and in the DVDs of the documentary that people were able to purchase".
“We’ve made [drinking water] into a trendy thing,” she says. 3. The trendiness of water. To understand how trendy drinking water has become, just look at the proliferation of water bottles ...
The purpose of this design was to eliminate the need to use colored liquids, which could leave a residue inside the bottle. [13] Though oil could be used to illuminate the colored glass panes in windows, gas lighting in the early 19th century led to the general use of show globes. They could be lit from the interior or placed in front of a gas jet.
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