UAA initiative saves 1M plastic bottles from landfill

The University of Alaska Anchorage’s “hydration stations” have saved nearly 1,000,000 plastic water bottles from going in the garbage.
Science maintenance technician Stephanie Tranby saw a need for students between classes to have quicker access to water fountains.
“When I first started I was fixing a lot of the old fountains. I saw everyone tipping their little jars and I thought we need to get some hydration stations in here,” Tranby said.
Three years later the UA