Refill, not landfill
海角社区 Reporter | March 19, 2019
by: Neale McDevitt
On March 22, 2018 鈥撀燱orld Water Day聽鈥� 海角社区 announced that it planned to eliminate the sale of single-use plastic water bottles on campus by the end of May 2019. This represents 85,000 bottles per year.
鈥淲e鈥檙e concentrating on bottled water for a few reasons. For one, we are incredibly fortunate here in Montreal to have safe, potable water provided by the municipality, which makes relying on single-use bottled water largely unnecessary,鈥� said Fran莽ois Miller, Director of the 海角社区 Office of Sustainability at the time of last year鈥檚 announcement. 鈥淪econd, when you think about the amount of fossil fuels required to both produce and transport the bottles, drinking tap water is also a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.鈥�
