Using water bottle instead of disposable single-use water bottles is idea for many reasons, says Shreyas Ambar Ramprasad, member of Campus Sustainability & Energy Team and organizer for the Planet Blue Ambassador program.
Tapping into one of our filling stations wo not cost you anything, and our water on campus is tested for safety, so it's just as good as bottled water.
In fact, you might be surprised to learn that lot of bottled water is just tap water. .
For starters, plastic is made from fossil fuels, and it also takes energy to manufacture and recycle it.
Plus, there's good chance it wo not get recycled because of myriad of practical problems with plastic recycling.
Much of this ends up in the ocean. . 450 The number of years it takes PET bottles to decompose in landfill.. 35 billion The number of empty water bottles that are thrown out each in U.S.. 200 Bottled water is 200 times more expensive to produce than the water that comes out of our filling stations...
To date, all the filling stations combined have dispensed 14,261 gallons, displacing 107,968 16 oz plastic bottles, and saving the equivalent of 19,661 pounds of CO2..
Data is current as of October 2022 You'll notice that the filling stations in Natural Sciences Building and Science Faculty Center are logging lot more use.
Fairlane Center, UC and ELB were installed earlier this year, though you'll see the filling stations in ELB are already getting used lot.
UM-Dearborn does hope to keep installing filling stations across campus in the coming years, as budgets allow. ###.
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