To be annoyed at this unnecessary use of plastic for the royal wedding?

[megafatCEObaby]

'It added it would also provide 10,000 free bottles of water.'

Just why?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44065681

To put it into perspective, the London Marathon handed out 760,000 plastic bottles of water.

Chances are the plastic bottles will be recyclable. Many now are.

Whilst not ideal to have single use plastic bottles all the time, I can see why they would do this when faced with potential high crowds of people in a small area with limited facilities (for the increase in passengers expected.)

What material do you want them to use?

Maybe portable water coolers will become the norm at these events so people get used to carrying their own water bottle and expecting to be able to get it filled.

To put it into perspective, the London Marathon handed out 760,000 plastic bottles of water.

I'm well aware, it doesn't make it better. Plastic doesn't not have infinite recycling possibilities and so ends up on the landfill after 2 or 3 uses, where essentially, it stays on the planet forever as after hundreds of years it turns into microplastic.

What material do you want them to use?

Um, why do they need to provide any bottles? It's a wedding, not a sport.

I went to Basel, Switzerland recently, there was a drinking fountains on most street corners. One of the worst scenes of rubbish Ive seen was at V Festival, not enough rubbish bins. However, I expect most large gatherings must deal with rubbish.

It’s highly likely that the bottles will be recycled. If not the trash will be increased to produce energy.

*the waste will be incinerated

Landfill is ruinously expensive in the UK nowadays (and rightly so). It’s far more likely that plastics that are no longer recyclable will be incinerated for power. Still not ideal of course from a carbon POV.

@megafatCEObaby
What do you think the environmental impact of manufacturing your phone was?

It won’t go to landfill. It will be turned into energy by incineration.