BRIDGEPORT, CONN. — St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport has banned the sale and distribution of bottled water in the building, the Connecticut Post reported.
The ban was implemented in order to lessen the environmental impact of the hospital’s patients, visitors and workers, the article stated.
“We were going through about 350,000 bottles a year, just in the bottles sold to employees and visitors,” said Deborah Ventricelli, St. Vincent’s corporate director of food and nutrition. “That’s a lot of plastic.”
The hospital began a “friendly education campaign” on Jan. 1 to encourage employees to rethink their use of bottled water and to warn them of the impending ban, according to the story.
Ventricelli said there are water dispensers throughout the hospital that are served by the public water supply.
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