{"id":20585,"date":"2023-08-23T04:10:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T11:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/?page_id=20585"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:55:09","slug":"water-bottle-refill-stations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/sustainbc\/waste\/waste-diversion\/water-bottle-refill-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Bottle Refill Stations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-new-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"BC water bottle refill station\" class=\"wp-image-20586 size-full img-fluid \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-new-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-new-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-new-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/08\/MicrosoftTeams-image-new-1535x2048.jpg 1535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Located across campus, water refill stations provide an easy and eco-conscious way to fill beverage vessels with cold, filtered water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why use a refill station?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Filling up at a refill station instead of buying bottled water, not only saves money, but it also reduces single-use plastics. Single-use plastics are items intended to be used only once before throwing away or recycling. Many of these bottles find their way into the environment and harm the animals and plants that live there. Nature.org reports \u201cHumans buy about 1,000,000 plastic bottles per minute in total and only about &nbsp;23% of plastic bottles are recycled within the U.S.\u201d. Bellevue College\u2019s water refill stations aim to take these bottles out of the waste stream by making it easy for everyone on campus to fill personal reusable water bottles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Stations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Spring 2022, twenty new water bottle filler stations were installed on campus. View the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2023\/05\/Bellevue-College-Campus-Map-ALL-Water-Fountains-v1.5-Variant-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>&nbsp;to see the locations of the new stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special thanks to the Student Environmental Sustainability Fund and the Capital Projects Fund for making this project possible.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":20601,"parent":16842,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-20585","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20623,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20585\/revisions\/20623"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}