One thing this class has taught me thus far is to be more aware of my consumption. Although I am not fond of water bottles, I have still been using them quite frequently and in large amounts. It wasn’t until the day that a proposition to ban the selling of plastic water bottles on campus cycled around the room that I realized my need to stop consuming so much plastic. I started thinking about how plastic never decomposes and how I needed to change my old habits of overconsumption.
Luckily, Jacqueline helped by suggesting that I buy an eco-mug from the school store and start using it to replace all the water bottles stacked up in my room. I quickly ran over to the school store before it closed that week and got one of the last ones they had available. I felt so fantastic finally changing the habit, kind of like the first day of a diet (except this was much easier). I filled up my mug in the Bernhard Center at one of the new drinking fountains and noticed a new cool device built into the fountain. A screen was computing how many water bottles the fountain was replacing every time someone used it! I liked seeing data like that and it encouraged me to promote eco-mugs instead of one-time use water bottles. Hopefully I can stick to this habit and maybe others will soon follow.
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