Students at Sunset Park High school showed off their brand new reusable water bottles.
“I never really thought about it but when you think about it you’re not gonna be wasting all that plastic,” Daisy Palaguachi said.
The company partnered with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Office of Sustainability for the new “Bring It” campaign.
They’re asking students to ditch the plastic and spread the word to their families and friends.
“To empower them with actual tools that they can bring and take to make better and more informed decisions,” Mark Chambers, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Sustainability, said.
The city says it’s goal in doing this is to try and get rid of 54 million single-use plastic bottles.
Or will it just be another item lost in the sea of supplies in their backpack?
“Some of them are really used to drinking bottled water but I just encourage them and remind them New York City tap water is really quite good,” science teacher and sustainability coordinator Katie McCarthy said.
“Knowing that you’re making a small change can turn into something bigger in the future,” student Alexandra Capistran said.
The bottles donated Monday range in price from $19 to $35, and the campaign is part of the city’s ultimate goal of sending zero waste to landfills by the year 2030.

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