Bottle or Tap? It makes a difference to your wallet.
This year UTK moved toward a great goal – eliminating bottled water on campus.
In August when school returned to session, UTK students were given reusable aluminum water bottles by Aramark, UT Athletics, and other campus groups. The 10,000 bottles were distributed by WUTK 90.3 “The Rock” and were purchased with funds from the sales of Power Tees. Maybe next year, The Only Bank On Campus can be a distribution center.
http://www.utk.edu/tntoday/2010/08/30/campus-groups-reusable-water-bottles/
The water bottle gift serves 2 purposes – being environmentally conscious is obvious, but what about the hidden cost in buying bottled water anyway? WalletPop from MSN agrees. Check out this top 10 list of items with the largest markup.
http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2010/09/27/10-most-overpriced-products-you-should-avoid/










Makes me proud to be a UT employee to see that we can do some good for our environment. Any steps can help. Now if we can just get some water bottle filling stations added across the campus so that the students can fill those water bottles easier…