Well, it wasn't exactly an oopsie. Water fits into our exempt list. It's a consumable rsource. But there we were, Hillary and Me, carrying brand new, sealed water bottles into the Gorge Ampitheater. Neither of us even considered it until we were inside and our bottles were empty and we were talking about refilling them. Why didn't we just bring our regular old nalgene water bottles, empty, into the venue and then refill them. Not sure.For me, it was a combination of being a water snob and ignorance. Just like that. I can bring a sealed new one in, so why bring mine in to refill.
This conversation led us to consider a required mitigation for those kind of scenerios. Situations when you could have re-used, but didn't think of it (ignorance is no excuse). A water bottle, a coffee-cup, a left-over container from a restaurant. We could move through this year using up all those resources, taking the brand new cup, bottle or styrofoam container. These things aren't technically in our contract. But....I am thinking, that it isn't alright to do those things. This has to be more challenging, more meaningful than not buying new, styley shoes for a year. So, what if, each time we spaced our mug, or tupperware, we have to mitigate?
How would we mitigate? Plant a tree? Volunteer for an hour somewhere? Pick up trash on the road? Any thoughts on this??
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