Banning the bottle

Here’s some old news that’s news to me: Washington University in St. Louis became what it believes to be the first university in the country to ban the sales of bottled water:

National statistics show that the rate plastic bottles are recycled is low and getting lower, as more end up in landfills,” Malten said. “Members of the Washington University community all have access to healthy water from a tap, and drinking tap water eliminates the generation of solid waste and energy usage to produce and distribute bottled water.

As we know, universities are packed with elite socialist types who want to take away our right to buy a little plastic now and then.