A Question for those on the Island

Emily, to answer your question there are both cans and plastic bottles of pop. The popular choice seems to be the bottle due mostly I am sure to the recent lift of "the can ban." You see up until about two years ago carbonated beverages could only be sold on PEI in refillable containers. This of course meant glass bottles only! There was a law enacted in the mid eighties to "protect the environment" by allowing carbonated beverages to be sold only in glass bottles. This of course did nothing about every other product for sale in either cans or plastic. As I mentioned the law was enacted to protect the environment but the real reason was to protect a local bottleing company that had the rights to produce, bottle and distribute the Pepsi brand here on PEI. If cans, etc. were allowed to remain than distribution would be from the mainland and this would cause hundreds of locals to lose their jobs. After about twenty five years the owner of this company passed away and the company sold to Pepsi. All of a sudden without local ownership the urge to "protect the environment" faded and we no have cans and plastic bottles full of pop and beer distributed from New Brunswick. Yeah this ban meant that beer could only be sold in bottles as well!

Thats very interesting!