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Battling the Bottle

Battling the Bottle. By: Cain Buckler SFSU. Our Goal: To phase out the sale and dispersal of plastic water bottles on campus. Concerns. If plastic water bottles are no longer sold won’t that lead to an increase in the sales of sodas? What if I’m thirsty and I don ’ t have a reusable bottle?

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Battling the Bottle

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  1. Battling the Bottle By: Cain Buckler SFSU

  2. Our Goal: To phase out the sale and dispersal of plastic water bottles on campus

  3. Concerns • If plastic water bottles are no longer sold won’t that lead to an increase in the sales of sodas? • What if I’m thirsty and I don’t have a reusable bottle? • Filling up a reusable bottle is too difficult • Selling water bottles creates revenue and is a large portion of my sales • Bottled water is healthier for me. Tap water is gross

  4. Our Goal: To phase out the sale and dispersal of plastic water bottles on campus • Step 1: Phase out plastic water bottles at University events like sporting events, catered meetings, and conferences. • Step 2: Phase out plastic water bottles from being sold on campus.

  5. How to make it work • Collaboration • Education • Infrastructure

  6. Collaboration • Create a TTBT student organization • Outreach and get new members • Find out who else on campus on campus is sustainability minded • Set up meetings with you school’s student government, administrators, and facilities staff • Look for allies in your surrounding community to support your campaign

  7. Education

  8. Education

  9. Education

  10. Infrastructure • Installed a water refill station on every primary floor of every academic building • Ordered 4 outdoor refill stations • Instituted a Vender Sustainability Grade

  11. Water Bottle Retrofits

  12. Outdoor filtered Refill Stations

  13. Portable water stations

  14. Contact Information Cain Buckler Student Sustainability Coordinator San Francisco State University cainbuckler@gmail.com (415)299-3236

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