Letters to the Editor: Some people just don’t see a problem with plastic bottles

I’m only going to show you one sentence from Alison Farough’s letter in the June 14 issue of The London Free Press because the more I read the closer the top of my head comes to popping right off.

She addresses an earlier letter entitled Bottle ban challenged (also linked to Free Press) and says:

“We have just started to touch the surface on educating our children to make healthier choices and a ban would leave them no choice but to purchase sugary pop from vending machines.”


If she is referring to the Royal We, i.e. the entire city of London, I would have to say she’s wrong.

Schools and literally thousands of families in London alone have been informing children about recycling, reusing, reducing the number of plastic products (incl. water bottles), drinking tap water, fruit and vegetable juices, being self-reliant and not depending on someone else to provide them with a drink, often in a plastic bottle, when they are thirsty.

However, if she’s referring only to her own family she’s got some ‘splainin’ to do to her kids.

My suggestion to Alison is as follows:

Buy a few reusable bottles (they don’t have to be plastic by the way) or look for some in your kitchen cupboards.

Show your children how to fill them with water from the tap. I guess, if time allows, show them how to snazz it up a bit with a bit of fruit juice.

Show them how to store the container in a backpack, pocket in a pair of baggy pants, reusable cloth bag or in their golf bag.

Sure, if your children golf they might have to remove a dozen golf balls from the ball pocket or leave their six-iron at home but how many kids need a six-iron anyway.

Readers, what would you suggest?

Click here to read another Letter to the Editor and my brilliant response or check my archives. You’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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