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*The Container Recycling Institute, founded in 1991, is a nonprofit, research and public education organization, advocating reduction of container and packaging waste. Additional information on container recycling and deposit systems can be found on CRI’s websites at www.Container-Recycling.org and www.bottlebill.org

ReUsablebags.com - We've grown and expanded our mission to provide consumers with more "reusables," including safe, reusable bottles and eco-friendly lunch bags. Our smart, practical product solutions enable people to reduce, reuse & save™. Below are a few of the ways we are making an impact:
Thrusting the plastic bag issue into mainstream consciousness while promoting the wisdom of reusable shopping bags as an important part of the solution. We’ve been a major catalyst and are inspiring a movement.

Whether you are concerned about the litter from plastic bottles, the toxicity from the unnecessary production and use of plastic, the cost to your town or city from having to dispose of the bottles, the undercutting of financing for high quality public water systems by the growing dependence on bottled water, or most fundamentally, turning water into a commodity to be sold for profit -- or all of the above -- please take the Think Outside the Bottle Pledge! When you do, you will also be taking action against a totally unnecessary contribution to global warming!

Sierra Club is joining with other organizations across the country in urging our members and friends to take the pledge to choose tap water over bottled water. We urge you to take the pledge and send the link to your friends, your local Sierra Club group, other networks, and local organizations.

Now you have a new way to find information about your drinking water, if it comes from a public water supplier. (EPA doesn't regulate private wells/bottled water). Every community water supplier must provide an annual report (sometimes called a consumer confidence report) to its customers. The report provides information on your local drinking water quality, including the water's source, the contaminants found in the water, and how consumers can get involved in protecting drinking water.

Californians Against Waste

It may seem like a trivial thing, but those "free" plastic bags we get at the grocers, department stores and restaurants are actually contributing to a world wide pandemic of plastics waste. Only 1-4% of the 19 billion plastic grocery and merchandise bags used annually in the State of California are recycled. That means that nearly 600 bags per second are discarded in California—destined either for the landfill or our marine environment. Learn more about what you can do to help stop one of the most pressing litter threats our ecosystems face.