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How goes the bottled water tax? Not so great, actually. The city was counting on bringing in $10.5 million in nickels, but sales have been much slower than expected; at the current pace, only $4.8 million will be collected this year.
In other news, the Chicago Botanic Garden no longer sells bottled water. According to the Garden's director of sustainable operations, "Manufacturing, shipping, recycling and disposing of bottled water uses an enormous amount of energy and creates unnecessary waste." [S-T, Botanic Garden release]
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if the objective is to reduce bottled water usage, then mission is achieved.
Yeah exactly, this is good news.
This reminds me of a debate I saw on Chicago Tonight a few months back, when they were talking about the city's move to ban some machine that detects red light cameras. Some alderman was all up in arms over these things, because they meant fewer people would run red lights, depriving the city of the money it so richly deserves.