University
of California, Berkeley
This campaign made possible
with support from TGIF
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Haas
School of Business Goes Bottle-less
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| Gerardo
Campos, Facilities and Building Manager at Haas School of Business,
next to his innovative water cooler. |
Bottle-less
Water Coolers
The typical water cooler uses large plastic bottles of water that are
transported by trucks. At the Haas
School of Business, there is a water cooler that is bottle-less
and thus uses less energy and resources. Over the past winter break,
Gerardo Campos, the facilities and building operations manager for Haas,
retrofitted several water coolers by directly piping water from the
sink to the dispensing unit. Without large plastic bottles, the water
cooler still serves filtered water that is able to be chilled or warmed.
Many positive side effects occurred as Campos notes, "This [innovation]
has taken away the unsightliness of keeping 25 water bottles and containers
in a small space and [decreased] our costs for providing water to our
community by about $200 a month and [eliminated] the costs of delivery
to deliver/pick-up empties." He also mentions that they will "avoid
those mishaps and cleanings when someone drops [a plastic bottle]."
Best of
all, this change did not cost him a single cent.
Story
by Joanna Young, Student Sustainability Communications Associate, Office
of Sustainability
First
Published:
Bright
Green News, July 2009
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