Campus bans sale of disposable water bottles

A new campus rule will have Western Washington University students scrambling to stores to purchase canteens and Camelbacks.

Beginning this fall, Western is banning the sale of all disposable water bottles from campus markets and vending machines.

Western will officially begin phasing out bottled water as soon as possible, said Carolyn Bowie, co-president of Students for Sustainable Water.

The ban of all disposable water bottles could be enforced as soon as this fall. However, a date is not definitively set for the water bottle ban because of challenges Western may face, such as getting water removed from campus vending machines, she said.

Western could lose $60,000 from the cold beverage contract with Pepsi if cold beverage sales significantly decrease, Robby Eckroth, the vice president of Associated Students for Student Life said in an email.

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