Ban Plastic Bottles at Penn State
Published February 22, 2011
Dear President Spanier and the Board of Trustees,
We the undersigned believe that Penn State should cease buying and selling single-use plastic water bottles as soon as possible. The detrimental costs associated with single-use bottles are numerous.
Single-use plastic water bottles contribute to solid waste pollution when they aren’t recycled. Plastics have been linked to developmental problems in numerous studies. In all parts of their lifecycle they contribute to climate change and other global environmental issues. They needlessly exploit a public resource for a price-gouging venture that charges about 700 times the price of tap water at Penn State, and in other places much more. Sometimes, paying that price results in depleted water for farms. In the worst cases it means paying military dictators for water "rights. Finally, the EPA’s, DEP's, and Penn State's own standards on tap water are more stringent than the FDA’s regulating bottled water.
We know that other big institutions have already done this. From Washington University in St. Louis to San Francisco city government, people are taking back the tap and saying "No!" to bottled water.
With Penn State’s growing commitment to social and environmental sustainability, it doesn’t make sense to carry on business as usual. Around campus, our Office of Physical Plant has installed bottle-filling stations that grow more popular every week. More students, staff, and faculty are moving away from single-use plastic bottles and using reusable steel, aluminum, and plastic canteens and bottles.
We know that more people across our university want good water. We have it right here.
We know that smart people are responsibly drinking water from our Spring Creek watershed.
We call on you to lead us by becoming bottle free and not renew the Aquafina contract with Pepsi and move us bottle free!!!
We are Penn State.
We the undersigned believe that Penn State should cease buying and selling single-use plastic water bottles as soon as possible. The detrimental costs associated with single-use bottles are numerous.
Single-use plastic water bottles contribute to solid waste pollution when they aren’t recycled. Plastics have been linked to developmental problems in numerous studies. In all parts of their lifecycle they contribute to climate change and other global environmental issues. They needlessly exploit a public resource for a price-gouging venture that charges about 700 times the price of tap water at Penn State, and in other places much more. Sometimes, paying that price results in depleted water for farms. In the worst cases it means paying military dictators for water "rights. Finally, the EPA’s, DEP's, and Penn State's own standards on tap water are more stringent than the FDA’s regulating bottled water.
We know that other big institutions have already done this. From Washington University in St. Louis to San Francisco city government, people are taking back the tap and saying "No!" to bottled water.
With Penn State’s growing commitment to social and environmental sustainability, it doesn’t make sense to carry on business as usual. Around campus, our Office of Physical Plant has installed bottle-filling stations that grow more popular every week. More students, staff, and faculty are moving away from single-use plastic bottles and using reusable steel, aluminum, and plastic canteens and bottles.
We know that more people across our university want good water. We have it right here.
We know that smart people are responsibly drinking water from our Spring Creek watershed.
We call on you to lead us by becoming bottle free and not renew the Aquafina contract with Pepsi and move us bottle free!!!
We are Penn State.
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