{"id":57116,"date":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-initiative-diverts-324374-water-bottles-from-landfill\/"},"modified":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T00:00:00","slug":"uri-initiative-diverts-324374-water-bottles-from-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/04\/uri-initiative-diverts-324374-water-bottles-from-landfill\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 initiative diverts 324,374 water bottles from landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tExeter, R.I. student gathers data from water filling stations<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 30, 2015 \u2013 Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38. Thanks to a University of Rhode initiative 324,374 plastic water bottles were saved from the state\u2019s recycling process and landfill. <\/p>\n


\nThe University has installed 14 water bottle filling stations in the Anna Fascitelli Fitness and Wellness Center, the College of Pharmacy building and Hillside Hall in an effort to reduce the number of disposable water bottles being purchased and tossed. <\/p>\n


\nMary Brennan, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s recycling and solid waste coordinator asked Alex Fahlman, a freshman mechanical engineering major from Exeter, R.I. to visit all of the bottle filling stations around campus to gather information that the stations collect and display. Each station tallies the number of water bottles diverted from the Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp.\u2019s Facilities, based on usage. His findings were: <\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tCollege of Pharmacy: 54,947<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tHillside Hall: 188,860<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tAnna Fascitelli Fitness and Wellness Center: 80,567<\/p>\n


\n\u2022\tTotal: 324,374<\/p>\n


\n\u201cWhen I first saw the water bottle filling stations I thought they were nice but I never imagined how many people were actually going to use them. Then when I saw the numbers I was so surprised. Whoever I shared the numbers with was also surprised so it\u2019s really encouraging to see this success. Just thinking about 324,000 water bottles diverted from the resource recovery center is fantastic. We recycle here on campus but not everyone is as diligent as they could be,\u201d said Brennan. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cI was not sure what to expect when I went to the locations because I didn’t know how much time people spent at them. Over 300,000 bottles is definitely more than I would expect, especially considering not everyone is going to use the refill stations,\u201d said Fahlman. <\/p>\n


\nAmericans used about 50 billion plastic water bottles last year. However, the U.S.\u2019s recycling rate for plastic is only 23 percent, which means 38 billion water bottles \u2013 more than $1 billion worth of plastic \u2013 are wasted each year, said Brennan citing data from the Ban the Bottle campaign. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cSince we found this out we have these traditional water fountains all over campus that nobody seems to use anymore. There are retrofit kits for converting existing water fountains into filling stations. You don\u2019t have to change the entire plumbing for older buildings so perhaps we could install this type of refillable stations in those locations, which would be fantastic.\u201d Brennan said. <\/p>\n


\nOne reusable bottle can last for decades, making it easy to stop buying single-serve bottled water to fulfill your everyday hydration needs, Brennan said.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe biggest challenge in my position is trying to get the word out to students about recycling because it can be difficult to communicate with them. We create posters and have some advertising but that\u2019s not terribly effective,\u201d Brennan said. \u201cThe best way to relay this message is for faculty and staff members to be good role models to the students of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI think that most people understand the importance of recycling and why it is beneficial for the world. It seems that these new refill stations have done a good job so far of making a difference at the University,\u201d said Fahlman. <\/p>\n


\nThis release was written by Caitlin Musselman, a 溏心vlog免费B站 Marketing and Communications intern and a public relations and political science major.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exeter, R.I. student gathers data from water filling stations KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 30, 2015 \u2013 Last year, the average American used 167 disposable water bottles, but only recycled 38. Thanks to a University of Rhode initiative 324,374 plastic water bottles were saved from the state\u2019s recycling process and landfill. The University has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}