Bottles, bottles everywhere
The average person disposes of 168 bottles a year, meaning on average, KU students and faculty contribute more than 5 million bottles to landfills each year. That’s a lot of needless waste. And two women are on a mission to change it.
As part of a nationwide tour called “Get Off the (H2O) Bottle,” director of the award-winning film “Tapped” will visit Lawrence to raise awareness about the environmental problems associated with plastic water bottles. The first 100 students to show up at the event can exchange a plastic water bottle for a free Klean Kanteen stainless steel bottle. The bottle swap starts at 2 p.m. and will be followed at 3 by a showing of the film.
Corporate Accountability International KU, Environs, KU Recycling and the Center for Sustainability are sponsoring the event.
“We are stopping at places that expressed an interest for us to come,” said Stephanie Soechtig, director of the film. “Campuses are a particularly great place to stop. That’s the generation that will do something. They are more motivated and still believe they can do something.”
The 33-day tour started in San Diego, on World Water Day and will end in Greenwich, Conn., April 23. Soechtig and Sarah Olson, the film’s producer, and their dog, Fellini, are driving across the country to get their message out and fill up their truck with plastic bottles.
Every bottle exchanged is tossed into the back. As of Friday, the truck was carrying 700 bottles; it can hold up to 15,000. Along with collecting bottles, Soechtig and Olson are gathering pledges from people to stop drinking bottled water and conserve. Soechtig said they had 300 pledges on their web site, more than 1,000 on Facebook and endless pages from the road — in all more than 2,000.
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