Reusable Bag Giveaway - Year 2!

For the second year in a row, Students For Sustainability has partnered with local organizations to donate over 600 reusable canvas bags to community members. These bags are purchased by an anonymous donor, given to the local school district's art classes, decorated, and then given away at local grocery stores to whoever would like them.

This year 640 bags were given away at 3 local grocery stores, mainly focusing on the Whole Grocer. By the end of four hours, only about 30 bags were remaining, which we then took to local nonprofits and business for their use.

The goal of our project was not only to provide free reusable bags to circulate in the community, but also to educate people about how much more beneficial reusable bags are to plastic ones.

To see the recap of last years giveaway, checkout http://studentsforsustainabilityjackson.blogspot.com/2013/05/bag-giveaway.html

Water Bottle Fillers

As the 2014 school year comes to a close, we finished totaling the amount of plastic bottles offset by our four water bottle filling stations. We're very proud of these results, and the project was quickly appreciated by the student body. 

We're also very excited to see water bottle fillers being installed around our community, through a project called JH2O. If you'd like to see what their project is all about, check http://www.jh2oproject.org/. 

Here is our recordings from the year: 

Week 1 fillers 1 bottles 700
week 2 fillers 2 bottles 2768
week 3 fillers 4 bottles 4496
week 4 fillers 4 bottles 6042
week 7 fillers 4 bottles 12,118
week 8 fillers 4 bottles 14,383
week 9 fillers 4 bottles 15,793