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この英文の要約を簡単にお願いします! (1)At a recent town meeting, residents of a rural Australian town voted to ban the sale of bottled water. They are probably the first community in the world to do so. This decision, made by residents of Bundanoon, was the second blow in one day to Australia's bottled drinks industry. Hours earlier, the New South Wales state government had banned all state departments and agencies from buying bottled water, calling it a waste of money and natural resources. (2)First popular in the 1980s as a convenient, healthy alternative to sweet drinks, bottled water today is attracting criticism for being environmentally damaging. Not only are used plastic bottles filling up garbage disposal sites, their production and distribution also use up large amounts of energy. (3)Because of these reasons, over the past few years, at least 60 local governments in the US and a number of others in Canada and the UK have agreed to stop spending public public money on bottled water, which public officials used to consume during meetings. But this is the first time that a community has banned the sale of bottled water. (4)Bundanoon's battle against the bottle began some years ago, when a Sydney-based company announced plans to pump local water out of the ground. Residents were furious about the possibility of an outside company taking local water, trucking ip to Sydney for bottling, and then selling it back to them. The town is still fighting the company's proposal in court. (5)Then in March, Huw Kingston, who owns the town's cafe and bike shop, decided that if the town was so opposed to hosting a water bottling company , it should also ban the end product, or in other words, bottled water. To prevent damaging the town's businesses that sell bottled water, Kingston suggested they instead sell bottles that could be used again and again, for the same price. Residents would be able to fill the bottles for free at public water tank, or pay a small fee to fill them with local water in the town's shops. (6)Over 300 people voted on the ban. This was the biggest assembly ever for a town meeting. Only two people voted against the proposal. One of them said he was worried that banning bottled water would encourage people to consume more sweet drinks. The other was Geoff Parker, direct of the Australasian Bottled Water Institute, which represents the bottled water industry. Parker attacked the ban as unfair and ineffective. He said that the bottled water industry is a leader in finding ways to reduce human impact on the environment, and also that the ban reduces consumer choice. “To take away the consumer's right to choose the healthiest drink option goes against common sense,” he stated. (7)But tap water is just as good as the water you find bottled in plastic, said the campaign organiser Jon Dee, who serves as director of the Australian environment group “Do Something!”. "We're hoping this ban will make people remember the days when we did not have bottled water," he said
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- Nakay702
- ベストアンサー率79% (10007/12518)
>この英文の要約を簡単にお願いします! ⇒最近、オーストラリアのBundanoonの住民がボトル入り飲料水の販売を禁止した。甘い飲み物の代替品として1980年代から普及したボトル入り飲料水だが、環境に有害であるという批判が増えてきたからだ。 米国、カナダ、英国などの地方自治体もボトル入り飲料水に反対する先例はあるが、コミュニティがボトル入り飲料水の販売を禁止したのはこれが初めて。この農村(Bundanoon)では300人以上の人々が禁止に投票した。 2人だけが提案に反対した。そのうちの1人は、ボトル入りの水を禁止することで人々がもっと甘い飲み物を摂取するようになるのではないかと心配する。もう1人(ボトル入り飲料水産業関係者)は、「健康的な飲み物を選ぶ権利を奪うことは常識に反する」と述べた。 このキャンペーンの主催者Jon Deeはこう語った。「この禁止措置により、ボトル入りの水がない時代のことを人々に思い出させてくれることを願っている」。
- double_triode
- ベストアンサー率26% (520/1997)
ペットボトル入りの水が普及しているが,その販売を禁止する動きがある。いっぽう,製造業者はそれに反対している。