Nalgene and Davis, CA Launch City-Wide Bottled Water Swapout
by Kristin Underwood, San Diego, CA on 08.12.08
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Nalgene is working with the City of Davis, CA to reduce its carbon footprint, starting with reducing its use of bottled water. Nalgene plans to donate reusable water bottles to all city employees and community members and is using this momentum to create a community sustainability program.
Davis, CA was already headed down the ban-the-bottle road when fall 2007 it enacted a city-wide restriction of the purchase of single-serving plastic water bottles. Additional Nalgene bottles can be purchased, with proceeds going to fund the Davis Sustainability Program. Davis, CA is the first community in the Nalgene Community Sutainability Program, with additional communities to be announced this fall.
Davis benefits from its location - between Sacramento and San Francisco, CA - as well as having a major university (UC Davis) located in the city. UC Davis is a member of the California Climate Action Registry, a group of organizations
Nalgene dumped Bisphenol A from its water bottles earlier this year. Cities interested in joining the Nalgene Community Sustainability Program can send an email to the program.
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Notice how the price of a nalgene didn't go up when they removed BPA... so, what benefit were they getting from including it in there?
Several months ago I was forwarded an email warning people (especially women) not to leave plastic water bottles in their vehicles. We've all made that much hated trip to the local market and one of the items we generally purchase is a case of water. Well if you're like me by the time you get home the water is usually the last thing you want to pick up and wrestle into the house. However, studies indicate microscopic particles of the plastic bottle melt away after continued exposure to heat and contaminate the water. The by product of this melted plastic is said to increased a woman's likelihood of developing breast cancer...I need to research it a bit more but I thought I'd mention