It’s for your own good, you know
If your airport routine features grabbing a bottle of water after passing through the TSA checkpoint, you may have to think again. Los Angeles International Airport has banned the sale of single-use plastic bottles in its facility, per a Facebook post.
The ban has followed a 2021 plan to gradually phase out the sale of water bottles in LAX and the Van Nuys Airport. It’s part of a larger, zero-waste initiative under Los Angeles World Airports’ Sustainability Action Plan.
The LAWA Board of Commissioners plans to make its airports entirely zero-waste by 2045. Besides banning plastic bottles, LAWA also intends to have net-zero emissions from its operations, develop a fully renewable electric profile, and minimize gray water.
“Eliminating single-use plastic water bottles is the right thing to do for our airports, our communities, and our environment,” said Justin Erbacci, CEO of LAWA, per television station KTLA.
The ban makes LAX the second airport to ban single-use plastic water bottles. In 2019, San Francisco International Airport (SFO) banned single-use plastic water bottles and included other types of beverages as of 2021.
How much revenue will be lost from all the shops at LAX? What will they sell instead? Not many drink manufacturers produce water in glass bottles. What problems are created by trying to go through customs with a reusable bottle? The thing is, they’re only banning water. Not soda and sugary drinks. Even Vox was not impressed when San Fran banned single use water bottles.
Further, where will LAX get all that electricity from? How does one of the major airports in the world, with 32 million flying through a year, have “zero emissions”? Maybe they should just shut down, what with all those Evil fossil fuels used.
Just to be clear, there is quite a bit of plastic waste. How many plastic bottles actually get recycled. This ban, is really more a feel good “we’re Doing Something” action, since all those other drink bottles are not banned.
I think they just like banning things. The word ban gives them erections. Gives them that feeling of power that all tyrants love to feel. That’s why Democrats make such great tyrants. It’s built into their DNA.
“Liberals” are natural submissives. They enjoy being told what they can and can’t do, and think everyone else should feel the same way.
the only real power they have is the power to say no.
And they haven’t banned soft drinks.
These are Karens writ large.
They are also hypocrites.
As soon as some rich Democrat billionaire bundler gets the corner on the bottled water market oh that’ll change. Then of course bottled water will be mandatory. That’s how the Democrats work these days when you have a federal government that’s completely out of control that’s what happens.
We are currently in a crumbling Republic a crumbling empire and we’re facing the unknown about what’s coming. And it ain’t gonna be pretty because the Democrats have set it up so it can’t be. They won’t tolerate being questioned they won’t tolerate being opposed and they won’t tolerate compromise. The only thing they hate worse than compromise is saying they’re wrong or they’re sorry. That’s why wherever there are leftists there are piles of bodies as high as an elephant’s eye.
Yes, they are. I note that in CA, where nat gas appliances have been virtually banned, propane is excluded. Can’t have those “civil servants'” vacation homes going without heat now, can we?