Created by university students, Day Without a Bottle is a day of action and awareness around one of the main contributors to plastic pollution: bottled water (and other beverages bottled in disposable plastic). The event proposes to halt the purchase of disposable plastic bottles for one day on campus. The strategy to create a Day Without a Bottle has the following components:

• raise awareness about the risk bottled water poses to the environment and to ourselves.  
• raise awareness about the easy alternatives  to buying beverages bottled in plastic (ie. hydration stations, reusables etc.)
• distribute free reusable stainless steel bottles as an incentive to participate in events
• collect pledge signatures of promise to refuse disposable plastic
• host representatives from organizations and business that support stopping plastic pollution. This will raise awareness about plastic free initiatives, business, and environmental impacts, and will include information tables, lectures, workshops and film screenings.

How do I host my own Day Without a Bottle or get more involved? Contact Plastic Free Campuses at campus@plasticpollutioncoalition.org

A Day Without a Bottle is about showing students that they can reduce plastic consumption and waste with a simple solution: A reusable bottle. With brand new hydration stations installed all over the UC Santa Barbara campus, students have even more options to stay hydrated and help the earth! With reusable bottles, students prevent thousands of plastic bottles entering the landfills around campus! A Day Without a Bottle shows that UC Santa Barbara students are making the change to convenient, cheap, sustainable alternatives to disposable plastic water bottles.

Join them on April 1st and pledge to use reusable bottles. You may even win some awesome prizes!

Brought to you by the Plastic Pollution Coalition at UCSB.