bobble Teams Up With College Students Across the Country to Ban the Use of Single-Serve Plastic Bottles Through the #WaterRevolution

RALEIGH, NC--(Marketwired - Nov 12, 2014) - Today, bobble, a leading brand in the rapidly growing reusable, self-filtering water bottle category, announces the expansion of the #WaterRevolution program -- an initiative that supports the ban of single-serve plastic water bottles on college campuses. bobble's #WaterRevolution is currently in effect on six college campuses across the country and the brand plans to expand efforts next year. 

Colleges nationwide are moving towards creating more sustainable campus environments and bobble is supporting this movement with its #WaterRevolution program. The brand has empowered six student leaders and their classmates with the tools to facilitate a campus ban of single-serve water bottles: Hunter Holmes who attends American University, Helia Bidad who attends University of California Berkeley, Graham Turbayne who attends Duke University, Danielle Faden who attends Northwestern University, Dorothy Qian who attends New York University, and Giselle Hart who attends the University of New Hampshire. Through conversations with administrators and peers about the incredible amount of waste bottled water generates (30+ billion bottles end up U.S. landfills each year), #WaterRevolution student activists are leading the charge for change. 

"As a company that focuses on taking care of oneself and the planet, bobble is committed to helping students eliminate bottled water waste from their campuses," said Martin Wolf, Director of Sustainability and Authenticity. "Giving students resources to hone their activist spirits, including signage, presentations and reusable bottles, is exciting and we hope their success in banning the bottle will prove how simple it can be to embrace the reusable water bottle movement."

"It's important for our generation to take initiative when it comes to the future of our planet. I'm thrilled to be a part of the #WaterRevolution and I'm excited to spread the word and encourage my classmates to join me in banning the sale of bottled water on our campus," said American University student Hunter Holmes.

This past spring 2014, bobble celebrated Harvard University's ban on bottled water with students and campus environmental groups who championed the change. To congratulate students, bobble provided more than 2,000 reusable bottles and a campus water refill station.

The #WaterRevolution program is designed for change-makers and leaders of the next generation, and through empowering students today, bobble is effecting change for generations of tomorrows. As many as 30 billion single-serve water bottles are disposed in U.S. landfills each year, which represents 12% of solid waste and takes over 700 years to decompose. bobble recognizes that something needs to be done, and working with these six student ambassadors is a step towards a cleaner and more efficient planet.

About bobble:

Founded in 2009 in New York City, bobble is a registered trademark of Seventh Generation Ventures, Inc. The brand partnered with design icon Karim Rashid to create bobble, a sleek, ecological alternative to single-serve plastic water bottles that features a replaceable, carbon filter designed to transform municipal tap water. Every bobble filter can help prevent single-serve water bottles from ending up in landfills. In 2014, the company launched taste the #WaterRevolution, a national campaign to expose the outrageous waste of bottled water, working with colleges and universities across the country to drive change. bobble products are available at www.waterbobble.com and in more than 40,000 retailers globally.