At Diefenbaker today, Jamie finished installing our Water Bottle Refilling station. We have been waiting for this since our PAC helped us by funding the purchase last May. After that, we had to wait for two other schools to sign up (many more than that did) and then they install them three schools at a time. We know that there are many of these in various schools, community centres and places like the ice rinks around Richmond, but we are excited to have our own here.
It became "fully operational" this afternoon and I got to fill up my bottle (as #17) and then again after basketball (as #35).
This counter:
will track how many "Nestle" type plastic water bottles have been saved from being brought to school and, resultingly, thrown into the landfill.
Here is also a shameless plug for one of my favourite "Green" documentaries called Tapped. You could watch the whole thing right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf64t6TkoBY on Youtube with no worries of Copyright issues in your classroom!
Here's the trailer:
Did you know that Dasani water is just tap water anyway? This video stopped me from purchasing bottled water. Period. Not that I bought much of it before, but I certainly don't anymore. We have some of the best water on the planet, why not just enjoy that. Many people in the world don't even have access to clean drinking water at all... We need to appreciate what we have here. Ok. Rant over...
Look for more "Green" related posts coming up as we are going to be doing our inaugural planting in our garden soon with the help from the gardening club!
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