Finally, some civic action that will affect Lake Tahoe and its residents. The town of Truckee has passed an ordnance that will ban the sale of single-use plastic water bottles. These ubiquitous pieces of trash have been polluting not just the Tahoe Basin, but the entire State of California. Mass produced for a few corporate giants, these products are not recycled. Consumers assume because they are "plastic" they are returned and melted into another usable form. Wrong: they are not. They stay in the environment where they are left and decompose into microplastic beads, infiltrating organisms including human beings. Research indicates that these micro-plastics are found in most living beings today.
Additionally, the city of South Lake Tahoe has also banned the use of plastic single use water bottles in their city. This move will help eliminate the tons of garbage left behind by thoughtless visitors who have no clue about the environment and could care less about local residents who have to clean up after these cretins from down the valley.
Perhaps the "Solons" in Sacramento will follow this path to help clean up the state's trash problem with water bottles- there should be a state-wide ban. Are you listening Governor Gruesom? Can you hear anything that makes sense? Or are you still too self absorbed to hear anything outside of the Governor's mansion?
Congrats to the town of Truckee and the City of South Lake Tahoe. Well done.
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