The Nalgene Community Sustainability Program was created to help communities and municipalities across the country reduce their carbon footprints by choosing to use reusable water bottles in place of single-serving bottled water.

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Each year Americans use billions of single serve bottled water, the majority of those bottles ending up in landfills. The general public has come to depend on the convenience of bottled water, however, that convenience adds up to a whole lot of wasted energy and CO2 emissions.

		8 out of 10 plastic water bottles used in the United States become garbage or end up in a landfill. (Container Recycling Institute)
		The energy we waste using bottled water would be enough to power 190,000 homes. But refilling your water bottle from the tap requires no expenditure of energy, and zero waste of resources. (PBS Point of View 2004)
		Producing all of the bottles for the US requires more than 1.5 million barrels of oil annually. That's enough to fuel 100,000 cars. (Earth Policy Institute)

Now with the Nalgene Community Sustainability Program, there is a choice for those organizations that want to take simple steps to improve the health of the environment, support local tap water and save a few pennies while doing so.

The Program aids municipalities' environmental efforts by extending generous reusable bottle discounts to communities committed to using reusable bottles instead of bottled water. The Program also helps educate residents on the quality and convenience of their local tap water.