Reduce the sale of plastic bottles on US campuses and encourage the use of reusable materials, such as glass, and the installation of free drinking water dispensers in all university colleges. This is the battle waged by hundreds of American students, who in recent months have joined the activist movement "Ban the bottle" to reduce the spread and consumption of plastic bottles on campuses.
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Reduce the sale of plastic bottles in US campuses and encourage the use of reusable materials, such as glass, and installing drinking water dispensers free in all university colleges. This is the battle waged by hundreds of American students, who in recent months have joined the activist movement "Ban the bottle”(Ban the bottle) to reduce the spread and consumption of plastic bottles on campus.
According to Bloomberg News, the American universities that have joined this initiative, opting for theinstallation of new distributors of free filtered water, are now 90 and the number is destined to grow thanks to the enthusiasm and active participation of students of all ages: from freshmen to undergraduates.
The grown-ups giants of bottled water however they are not there and are putting into practice all possible marketing strategies to stop the movement, arguing that the plastic it is the cheapest of the materials. But that's not all: the Bottled Water Association, the American Association of Bottled Waters, just recently launched a video on youtube to fight, they say, the "misinformation" spread among students and instead encourage them to fight for freedom of choice and purchase.
But the university students continue their battle, arguing that plastic is a wasteful material. According to reports from the “Ban the Bottle” group, in fact, they want us well 17 million barrels of crude oil per year to produce all the plastic bottles used in the United States. A huge amount, especially if we think that they are fed with the same amount of oil every year 1 million and 300.000 cars.
And there is more: to those who contest the movement saying that plastic can be recycled and reused, students respond that - however it goes - there are 30 to 40 million bottles that end up in landfills every year, thus contributing to environmental pollution.
And so from Seattle to Boston, passing through Pennsylvania, one long list of American universities has decided to ban (or at least limit) the consumption of bottled water, replacing the old polluting bottle dispensers with new free water dispensers.
Not bad for the country that holds the sad world record for the highest consumption of plastic!
