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Take Back the Tap
February 26, 2009
The students of the Sustainability Committee have a message, or rather a mission, for everyone at PLU this semester – it’s time to Take Back the Tap.
Using resources from the Renewable Energy Fund, the students are implementing a campaign to encourage everyone on campus to stop selling, buying and using bottled water. The TBTT campaign goal is to reduce bottled water consumption by 50 percent by encouraging the PLU community to make the simple lifestyle change of choosing to drink tap water over bottled water.
Bottled water is expensive compared to the water from the tap, but the cost is not just monetary. The manufacturing, bottling and transportation processes associated with bottled water uses enormous amounts of energy, contributing to global climate change.
To make this lifestyle change a little easier, the TBTT campaign has funded infrastructure changes, like new filtered gooseneck “water bottle refill stations” on water fountains around campus.
Plus TBTT has purchased 1008 Nalgene BPA-free water bottles to sell for $1 to students who pledge to give up bottled water during TBTT kick-off week, the first week of March, in the UC.
So get off the bottle and fill up at the tap.
Bottled water is expensive compared to the water from the tap, but the cost is not just monetary. The manufacturing, bottling and transportation processes associated with bottled water uses enormous amounts of energy, contributing to global climate change.
To make this lifestyle change a little easier, the TBTT campaign has funded infrastructure changes, like new filtered gooseneck “water bottle refill stations” on water fountains around campus.
Plus TBTT has purchased 1008 Nalgene BPA-free water bottles to sell for $1 to students who pledge to give up bottled water during TBTT kick-off week, the first week of March, in the UC.
So get off the bottle and fill up at the tap.