Back2Tap
Hold a fundraiser selling custom stainless steel reusable water bottles and shopping bags while educating your community about sustainability and global water issues.
www.back2tap.com
Age group: Grades K-12
Geographic area: Worldwide
Is your school or group looking for a new and green way to raise money that helps mitigate climate change through resource conservation? The Back2Tap Campaign is a fundraiser that also serves to raise environmental awareness in your school or community. Back2Tap is a for profit company offering stainless steel bottles and fair-trade organic cotton shopping bags for your school or group to sell. You earn 20-30% on the sale of the bottles and bags and you can donate the proceeds to a cause of your choice. In the process, you will also educate your community about sustainability and local and global water issues.
Every year, 50 billion plastic bottles and 380 billion plastic bags end up in landfills in the United States. The amount of oil it takes to produce plastic water bottles each year could fuel over 1 million cars for the whole year. It takes 3 bottles of water to make and distribute 1 disposable plastic bottle of water, and 120 grams of greenhouse gases are generated by a single disposable plastic bottle of water. For each person who switches from using disposable bottles and bags to using a stainless steel water bottle or cotton shopping bag, 218 plastic bottles and 300 plastic bags are saved each year.
You can take your campaign a step further by connecting the fundraiser to a school or community event such as a field day or 5K run. Educate your classmates about the benefits of tap water or the consequence of plastic bottles and bags on the environment through a school newsletter or a public service announcement. Back2Tap provides lots of background facts and ideas for ways to educate others.
For more information on starting a Back2Tap fundraising campaign at your school, visit Back2Tap.
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