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Ban the Bottle

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Emily Herrera
11 years ago Featured

definitely needed. save money and the planet at the same time

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Sarah Ross
11 years ago Featured

it is so annoying buying cases of water when we could just have a decent filling station in the dorms

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Katie Bryan
11 years ago

I'm always wishing I had a water fountain in my hall!

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Alfred Bailey
11 years ago

Please sign this! Lets lower our unnecessary waste Keep our fresh water clean Our ocean does not need more plastic! BPA is a neurotoxin commonly found in Plastic water bottles, it is also an estrogen like compound which is known to lower your sperm count, alter sperm, and cause other hormonal disruptions. BPA is an endocrine disruptor linked to breast and prostate cancer. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/ban-the-bottle-2/… We use 17 million barrels of oil each year just to produce single use water bottles Americans buy an estimated 42.6 billion single-serving (1 liter or less) plastic water bottles each year. Almost eight out of ten end up in a landfill or incinerator. Hundreds of millions end up as litter on roads and beaches or in streams and other waterways. Taxpayers pay hundreds millions of dollars each year in disposal and litter cleanup costs. The Earth Policy Institute factors the energy used to pump, process, transport and refrigerate our bottled water as over 50 million barrels of oil every year.  All these Universities have already done so: • Brown University- Rhode Island • Central Michigan University- Michigan • College of St. Benedict- Minnesota • Concordia University- Canada • Cornell University- New York • Dartmouth College- New Hampshire • Emerson College- Massachusetts • Evergreen State College- Washington • Georgian College- Canada • Hampshire College- Massachusetts • Harvard University- Massachusetts • Loyola University- Illinois • Macalester College- Minnesota • Muhlenberg College- Pennsylvania • Princeton University- New Jersey • Seattle Central Community College • St. Mary’s College- Canada • St. Michael’s College- Vermont • St. Norbert College- Wisconsin • UC Berkeley- California • University of Nevada, Las Vegas- Nevada • University of Toronto- Canada • University of Vermont- Vermont • University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point- Wisconsin • University of Wisconsin Madison- Wisconsin-NEW! • Vancouver Isla

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Andrew stone
11 years ago

good idea

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Nicholas Danner
11 years ago

Good Luck Alfred

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Helena Fierle
11 years ago

BAN THE BOTTLES!!

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Brooke Deflorio
11 years ago

YES :)

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Chad Thadington
11 years ago

I AM THE EVIL TWIN!!!

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Mike Nash
11 years ago Featured

RIDICULOUS that we dont have these yet. get it done uri

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Tom Robinson
11 years ago Featured

finally some movement on this. about time.

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Ben Schmidt
11 years ago

do it.

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Derek James
11 years ago

please add more eco-friendly water fountains to the campus!

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Jessica Wells
11 years ago Featured

please put these in hillcrest i am tired of the gross tap water

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Erin Hall
11 years ago

Think green, we do!

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Emily Rowles
11 years ago

yay eco-friendly!

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rachel
11 years ago

URI let's make change and inspire others to do the same, think big we do!