1. Refills, Not Landfills Louisiana State University
Keep LA Beautiful conference
September 28, 2016

2. KLB Partnership-Recycling Tigers

3. KLB Partnership-Take Back the Lakes

4. KLB Conference-Litteratti Campaign

5. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle 31,527 Students at LSU
4,500 tons waste landfill annually
3,500 tons of recycled materials annually
Lots of coffee cups and water bottles!
Even recycling bottles requires energy

6. Why reduce bottled water?
LSU is committed to pollution prevention and sustainability
17 million barrels of oil annually in U.S. = Fill 1 million cars for 1 year
3 times more water required to make a bottle of it than to fill it
In general, more than 80% bottles landfilled
Producing bottled water = 3x amount of energy than tap water

7. Potential Positive Impacts at LSU
If just 1,500 students (5%) switched to reusable bottles…
Save over 14,000 gallons of water
5% LSU students switching = 44.8 metric tons CO2e
Equivalent of 9.7 M passenger cars not driven for 1 year

8. Refills, Not Landfills
Reusable Bottle Giveaway to Students – ~300 bottles
$3,000
3 New Water Bottle Refill Stations at LSU
$5,500
“Geaux Green” Pledge to use reusable bottles
LSU Dining Discount
99 cent coffee for the entire month of October
Contest / Prizes for “Best Selfie”

9. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Total # refillable water bottle stations: 11
Total # refills:  354,000 refills
Total CO2e avoided:  213 tons
Equivalents:
35 passenger vehicles removed from road for 1 year
53 tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
17.4 homes’ energy use for 1 year
Carbon sequestered by 156 acres of U.S. forests in one year

10. Installing the Stations…

11. Refills, Not Landfills
Reusable Bottle Giveaway to Students – ~300 bottles
3 New Bottle Refill Stations at LSU
“Geaux Green” Pledge to use reusable bottles
LSU Dining Discount
Contest / Prize for “Best Selfie”

12. Communication

16. Fall Fest 2016-Signing the Pledge

17. Bottle Giveaway-September 26, 2016

18. Bottle Giveaway-September 26, 2016

19. Social Media Response

20. Social Media Response

21. Future Reporting Total # student pledges
Total # student use of LSU Dining discount
Total # bottles avoided by count on 3 new refillable water stations
Measure continued environmental and fiscal impacts
Long-term campaign – every semester!

22. LSU + KLB=SUCCESS
4 LA DEQ Environmental Leadership Awards (2010, 2011, 2015 & 2016)
1 GameDay Recycling Challenge National Championship (2015)