I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

Trying to find any logic or rationality in Democrats policy is likely to give you a migraine. It's a fools errand. Better to just expect whatever policies they implement are nonsensical, unnecessary, and will cost the public more money in the end.

Definitely an idiotic policy.

The only logical thing (I know, finding logic is futile) I can think of is volume. You normally buy and drink bottled water by the 30-40 pack. However, you'll only get one Gatorade or a small 6-12 pack and they get drank slower. Who knows, though.

Go to 32 oz water bottles. That will cut water bottle disposal in half. Maybe even develope an ice tray that will give you long thin ice cubes that you can slip into the neck of the bottle to keep the 32 oz of water cool.

It shouldn't be that hard to reduce the plastic bottle waste.

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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You left the insanity of California for Colorado?

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

I wouldn't ban them just put a deposit on them like glass bottles 60 plus years ago. I remember it might take me a while a day to walk to the store as I searched the roadside for enough bottles that I could redeem for a drink myself. Would never work with today's helicopter parents and Karens reporting to police that an unaccompanied minor walking the street.

I don't call it Breck but it is all over there website.

Colorado: Beautiful country run by abject morons. Kommiefornia Part Deux, if you will.

Summit County!

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I don't call it Breck but it is all over there website.

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I did say native Coloradoan.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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Just for future reference ... oh, never mind.

Why do liberals always take over beautiful places?

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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You left the insanity of California for Colorado?

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This, if trying to escape liberal nonsense, Colorado is not the place to go. Plus its full of a**holes.

First problem is you picked Breckinridge. Much better less commercialized places. Hell Copper is down the street.

I've shifted over to BIg Sky, and Anything in Utah. Although i do frequent Estes Park since I have a friend that owns a lodge there.

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I wouldn't ban them just put a deposit on them like glass bottles 60 plus years ago. I remember it might take me a while a day to walk to the store as I searched the roadside for enough bottles that I could redeem for a drink myself. Would never work with today's helicopter parents and Karens reporting to police that an unaccompanied minor walking the street.

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The problem is, tax dollars would have to be used since there's no market for the plastic. Of course Democrats never have a problem spending our money. In the good old days the bottles were actually cleaned and reused.

If the environmental whackos were actually 'all in' they could start a true nonprofit and fund the cleanup by offering a few cents for empties. I think people would walk the highways picking them up.

Whoa, did I just come up with a solution???

Go to South Park next time.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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Would they spell it correctly though?

Breckinridge in the summer would be a better spot than Copper. Also to mention it's too commercialized , but then throw in Estes Park is pretty funny.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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Would they spell it correctly though?

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Original spelling...

" However, due to the Civil War, where John C. Breckinridge sided with the Confederacy, the townspeople changed the spelling to "Breckenridge" to distance themselves from the Confederate association"

Paraphrasing George Carlin:

nm

First they came for plastic bottles, and I did not speak out
Because I was not a plastic bottle.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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Would they spell it correctly though?

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Original spelling...

" However, due to the Civil War, where John C. Breckinridge sided with the Confederacy, the townspeople changed the spelling to "Breckenridge" to distance themselves from the Confederate association"

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https://www.summitdaily.com/news/summit-county-history-two-theories-of-how-breckenridge-got-its-name-2/

Some confusion apparently about whether it actually started as Breckenridge then switched to Breckinridge before switching back two years later. In any case it's been Breckenridge since 1861.

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Trying to find any logic or rationality in Democrats policy is likely to give you a migraine. It's a fools errand. Better to just expect whatever policies they implement are nonsensical, unnecessary, and will cost the public more money in the end.

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It seems to be the opposite when you actually look at how much blue states versus red states contribute to the national economy or tax base. Can you explain why that is?

oof. couldn't get in this thread before low IQ useful idiots came to try to derail a thread about banning bottles and socialist political policies into some weird flex about the size of the economies in CA or NY.

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If the environmental whackos were actually 'all in' they could start a true nonprofit and fund the cleanup by offering a few cents for empties. I think people would walk the highways picking them up.

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From living in Eugene, OR a few years I did notice that while the "unhoused" members of the community did leave mountains of trash everywhere, it was very rare (at least at a glance) to see a beer can, soda can, or water bottle in any of the trash. They took all of those back to store for the $0.10 deposit.

I once even observed a dude walk out of a store with a case of water and then proceed to poke a knife into each bottle to drain the water and then go right back into the store with the empties for his deposit. It's likely that he had either shoplifted the water or "possibly" used SNAP to buy it, but the dime deposit per bottle was worth more to him than the actual water. The fun part is, if you have 24 or less eligible containers the store is required to pay you the return deposit, even if you just stole it from the store. It's like crazy world.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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Good think i'm not a native then.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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You left the insanity of California for Colorado?

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I only get so much say in where I go.

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If the environmental whackos were actually 'all in' they could start a true nonprofit and fund the cleanup by offering a few cents for empties. I think people would walk the highways picking them up.

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From living in Eugene, OR a few years I did notice that while the "unhoused" members of the community did leave mountains of trash everywhere, it was very rare (at least at a glance) to see a beer can, soda can, or water bottle in any of the trash. They took all of those back to store for the $0.10 deposit.

I once even observed a dude walk out of a store with a case of water and then proceed to poke a knife into each bottle to drain the water and then go right back into the store with the empties for his deposit. It's likely that he had either shoplifted the water or "possibly" used SNAP to buy it, but the dime deposit per bottle was worth more to him than the actual water. The fun part is, if you have 24 or less eligible containers the store is required to pay you the return deposit, even if you just stole it from the store. It's like crazy world.

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but blue states have big economies!!!!

Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Meanwhile in India...

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Why do liberals always take over beautiful places?

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It gives them more to destroy.

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First problem is you picked Breckinridge. Much better less commercialized places. Hell Copper is down the street.

I've shifted over to BIg Sky, and Anything in Utah. Although i do frequent Estes Park since I have a friend that owns a lodge there.

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Neat. Thanks for sharing. Can't really get to Big Sky, Utah, or Estes in 2 hours

Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Tell me the Governor gets donations from Gatorade without telling me the governor gets donations from Gatorade.

In parts of West Texas, you can lie on your back among the mesquite trees and watch Wal*Mart bags compete for hovering space with the buzzards.

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Jock 07 said:

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I thought I was getting away from all the dumbassery of charging for grocery store bags when I left CA only to learn it followed me to CO. But I just ran up to Breck for the weekend only to find out that water bottles are banned in summit county. 12 oz plastic Gatorade bottles are just fine, just as flavored water plastic bottles are ok. Pure insanity.

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Just for future reference, no native Coloradoan would call Breckinridge "Breck".

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They call it b-ridge or bridge