One man alone cannot accomplish this task. Nor can a small group of individuals. In order for this goal to be achieved, a ban of all single use plastic water bottles on campus, we need your help! Tell your friends about this blog, spread the word that plastic bottles are unnecessary. Pull out that reusable water bottle and spread the buzz around campus. Here's a few facts on why this campaign is important to us.
1. Global climate change is among us all, and is affecting each and every one of us. In order to produce a water bottle, it takes 1/3 the bottles holding volume filled with oil in order to produce the bottle. Burning this oil creates CO2 which is a major factor in climate change.
2. Profit from a natural resource. Coke, Pepsi, and other big companies are profiting millions each year on our natural resources that should be affordable, and non profited. This bottling is also depleting water in various communities around the country. In 2011 bottle water sales in the U.S.A. were extreme selling 9.1 billion gallons of water. Fishman, Charles (2012, May 17), Retrieved from: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/17/u-s-bottled-water-sales-are-booming-again-despite-opposition/ . Companies are scaring us into believing that bottled water is both healthier, and cleaner then tap. This however is false so don't believe everything you hear.
3. In the Pacific Ocean there is a garbage patch twice the size of Texas. This has been deemed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and consists of mainly plastic. None of these bottles are recycled, and very easily could have been. Silverman, Jacob. "Why is the world\u0027s biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?" 19 September 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm> 22 January 2013.
While a university of this size is yet to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on campus, there's nothing saying that we can't be the first. A list of universities who have banned water bottles on campus is listed below:
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point!
Belmont University
College of St. Benedict
Macalester College
Oberlin College
Seattle University
University of Portland
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Washington University in St. Louis
Also: Concord, Massachusetts is the first city in the U.S.A. to ban all sales of single use plastic water bottles under 1L. This is creating a large amount of buzz on this topic. Learn more about how this city accomplished this great task below:
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1. Global climate change is among us all, and is affecting each and every one of us. In order to produce a water bottle, it takes 1/3 the bottles holding volume filled with oil in order to produce the bottle. Burning this oil creates CO2 which is a major factor in climate change.
2. Profit from a natural resource. Coke, Pepsi, and other big companies are profiting millions each year on our natural resources that should be affordable, and non profited. This bottling is also depleting water in various communities around the country. In 2011 bottle water sales in the U.S.A. were extreme selling 9.1 billion gallons of water. Fishman, Charles (2012, May 17), Retrieved from: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/05/17/u-s-bottled-water-sales-are-booming-again-despite-opposition/ . Companies are scaring us into believing that bottled water is both healthier, and cleaner then tap. This however is false so don't believe everything you hear.
3. In the Pacific Ocean there is a garbage patch twice the size of Texas. This has been deemed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and consists of mainly plastic. None of these bottles are recycled, and very easily could have been. Silverman, Jacob. "Why is the world\u0027s biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean?" 19 September 2007. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/great-pacific-garbage-patch.htm> 22 January 2013.
While a university of this size is yet to ban the sale of plastic water bottles on campus, there's nothing saying that we can't be the first. A list of universities who have banned water bottles on campus is listed below:
University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point!
Belmont University
College of St. Benedict
Macalester College
Oberlin College
Seattle University
University of Portland
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Washington University in St. Louis
Also: Concord, Massachusetts is the first city in the U.S.A. to ban all sales of single use plastic water bottles under 1L. This is creating a large amount of buzz on this topic. Learn more about how this city accomplished this great task below:
--> http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/07/13710037-concord-mass-the-first-us-city-to-ban-sale-of-plastic-water-bottles?lite
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