Promoting waste prevention and composting, improving the curbside recycling program, expanding the bottle bill and encouraging new markets for recycled materials are consistent with city and state policies and will save the city money in the long run.
And the bottled water industry itself should be reigned in and forced to put meaningful and informative labels on their bottles, develop mandatory recycling programs by using recycled plastic in their bottles, and stop maligning tap water.
The company, started in San Francisco in 2001 by Adam Lowry and Eric Ryan, already makes its packaging from recycled plastics sourced from curbside recycling programs.
"We do not understand -- and the Board Memo does not explain -- why MWD believes a new recycled water program is necessary," the San Diego contingent wrote.
They also said creating a new recycled water program was "premature" because local and regional water plans are still being updated, and those plans "will provide vital information regarding water supply and demand forecasts".
Ekocycle is among numerous efforts to create new uses for recycled materials as a way to encourage consumers to recycle, manufacturers to buy those materials and municipalities to begin or expand recycling programs.
It was the local channel, which recycled its programs every hour.
Another company, Arris, involved in environmental management of the Virginia Pipeline, is seeking government funding to help set up recycled water programs in China.
California seeks to build one of world's largest recycled water programs .
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is in talks with Los Angeles County sanitation districts about developing what could be one of the largest recycled water programs in the world.
