House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda

House of Representatives
Session of 2019 - 2020 Regular Session

Posted:	January 4, 2019 02:21 PM
From:	Representative Perry S. Warren
To:	All House members
Subject:	Water Bottle Filling Stations

Plastic bottles are undoubtedly convenient. They are easily bought, used, and thrown away without a second thought. That, however, leads to many bottles finding their way onto the streets instead of recycling containers. If not the streets, the bottles often wind up in a landfill, where the chemicals in the plastic seep into the ground. Worse yet, too many bottles end up in the ocean, polluting our waters and killing marine life in the process. In order to help curb production and use of plastic bottles, I will be introducing legislation that would require newly-constructed state buildings, as well as existing state buildings undergoing renovations to their water and pipe infrastructure, to install water bottle filling stations. These stations are similar to water fountains, but have an additional nozzle above the basin that conveniently allows for the filling or refilling of any bottle with water. The ease and convenience of these stations would ultimately help reduce the use of plastic bottles by encouraging the use of reusable bottles. Please join me in taking this step to help protect the one and only planet we have.
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Introduced as HB1608