But I can't help wishing they'd allow outside bottles for a corkage fee, even a hefty one.
And some students pushed the "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign to steer people away from bottled water, so that they would be more environmentally-friendly.
Bend the part outside the bottle down, so that the opening of the straw is pointing down along the neck of the bottle.
Bottled water costs 4,000 to 10,000 times as much as tap water, according to the Think Outside the Bottle environmental campaign.
Outside, a bottle shatters.
Gigi Kellett Boston, July 17, 2007 The writer is campaigns director, "Think Outside the Bottle," Corporate Accountability International.
Day-trippers from Manhattan were headed for Smorgasburg, the food extension of the Brooklyn Flea; a line had formed outside Blue Bottle Coffee over on Berry Street; and the sign-up sheet at Egg, the little breakfast place on North Fifth Street, was oversubscribed.
Now, more than 30 cities and towns in the United States and Canada — from Fayetteville, Ark., to Seattle to Blue Mountains, Ontario — have taken steps to curtail spending on bottled water, according to Corporate Accountability International, an advocacy group that challenges corporate abuses and which runs the Think Outside the Bottle campaign.
Over the past few years, at least 60 cities in the United States and a handful of others in Canada and the United Kingdom have agreed to stop spending taxpayer money on bottled water, which is often consumed during city meetings, said Deborah Lapidus, organiser of Corporate Accountability International's "Think Outside the Bottle" campaign in the US.
