Politics & Government

VIDEO: Bottle Ban Backer Fashions Plastic Faucet

Concord resident Bob Lawson fashioned a faucet out of empty water bottles as a sign of support for Article 32, which proposes a bylaw to prohibit the sale of flat, unflavored drinking water in plastic bottles of 1 liter or less.

Bottled water bans going before annual Town Meeting is becoming almost customary in Concord, but a homemade structure displayed around town on Tuesday intended to raise at least a few new eyebrows.

Concord resident Bob Lawson, who fashioned the faucet out of empty plastic water bottles, says it's time to stand up and act on that which the town has been talking about for a few years now. Bottled water is low-hanging fruit in the fight for the environment, and the town should have no trouble returning to the tap, Lawson said.

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