Bottled Water Ban

Dear Jennifer,

For the past few years CSWD has been giving out tote bags. Nowadays, so does everyone else--to the point where everyone seems to have piles of them but still forget to use them. Next year, we'll be working instead on reinforcing the behavior of actually bringing them with you in your car by giving out door hangers along the lines of hotel "do not disturb" signs--maybe something as well in the car to remind people to actually bring them in the store with them (haven't thought of anything yet--this is all still deep in the hmmmmmmmmmm stage).

I wonder if you would want to do something similar regarding water bottles: maybe give out small mesh bags to hang on the doorknob to hold a water bottle so people remember to "fill before you fly" or some such. Great idea to undertake this effort. How will you get businesses on board that make money by selling bottled water?

Cheers,
Clare

Clare Innes
Marketing & Communications Manager
Chittenden Solid Waste District
1021 Redmond Road Williston, VT 05495
(802) 872-8100 ext. 207
Fax: (802) 878-5787
www.cswd.net

The Polaris Institute has a good campaign- but not necessarily just in regards to within city limits.

http://www.insidethebottle.org/
http://www.polarisinstitute.org/

~Meaghan Orlinski

www.greenisblack.ca
Toronto, Ontario

Check with the Santa Clara Valley Water District http://www.valleywater.org/tapvbottle/

Rebecca Fotu

Environmental Programs Coordinator
City of Morgan Hill | 17555 Peak Ave
Morgan Hill, CA 95037
( 408.779.7247 ext.413| 7 408.779.7236 
*[email protected]

The City of London, Ontario has policy in place to end the sale of plastic water bottles within municipal buildings used by the public. NGO's I am involved with are working with the City to encourage use of water fountains and reusable containers as well as policy to reduce waste generated from disposable one-time use throwaways from local summer festivals as well where plastic bottles are plentiful. A pilot this past summer reduced waste by half at three large festivals once composting, recycling, reusable dishes, vendor use of biodegradables, ecostations, water refills, source separation to keep the plastic water bottles at bay etc were implemented. Various City buildings will be phased in over time to eliminate the sale of water bottles - people can still bring them on site at this time.

Diane Szoller
London, Ontario

Hi Jennifer,

A lot of people that I know stopped drinking EVIAN bottled water when someone spelt it backwards (?NAÏVE?).

Steve J

Hi - You may know of an environmental activist, Jon Dee (founder of Planet Ark).I think he is from the UK.. He has created a bottled water alliance campaign here in AUS http://www.bottledwateralliance.com/

Emma Fuchsen
Regional Waste Management Group
Australia