Elkay fights the battle of the bottle the EZH2O way

by Sarah Barker

WHAT’S HAPPENING

Don’t call them simple water fountains. Elkay’s EZH2O bottle-filling stations keep track of how many plastic bottles aren’t being used.
As we filled our reusable water bottle at the Elkay EZH2O water station at the University of Minnesota, the counter at eye level turned over to 10,837 — the number of earth-hating plastic bottles saved (Iconoculture observation, 6 October 2010).
EZH2O bottle-filling stations can be retrofit into existing Elkay water fountains (Green-Talk.com, 31 August 2010). The official stations filter water and dispense it at a faster rate than fountains — allowing fast, hygienic, one-handed filling of reusable bottles.

WHAT THIS MEANS TO BUSINESS

Now earth savers can do their best EZ-ily and cheaply in any office, school, gym or hospital setting — and feel all self-righteous about it, to boot.
Of course, consumers have to be sure that their reusable bottle doesn’t have nasty phthalates! The price of being SustainAbilities^SM-oriented is constant vigilance.

RESOURCES

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