About This Campaign For decades, Nestlé Waters — the world’s largest water bottler — has bought up access to public water across North America to turn our most precious public resource into a private commodity. Paying next to nothing in royalties, Nestlé makes billions of dollars a year selling our water. Over recent years, The…
Story of Stuff partner FLOW has announced model legislation to protect Michigan’s public waters from unauthorized privatization. Earlier this year, we released A Tale of Two Cities, a short documentary telling the story of Michigan’s battle for the public control of water. We explored the threat of privatization through the eyes of local activists in…
Austin Reuse Coalition: Reuse is the New Normal The Reuse Is the New Normal project was awarded funding to advance reuse practices in Austin. The goal is to normalize reuse by making it accessible and convenient throughout the city. The project aims to reduce litter and plastic pollution, specifically benefiting BIPOC and low-income neighborhoods in…
How Cascade Locks beat Nestlé In 2016, dedicated community members in the small town of Cascade Locks championed a successful ballot measure to ban commercial water bottling in their county. We partnered with Local Water Alliance to tell the David and Goliath story of small town organizing that took on a multinational corporation and won.…
Why This Fight Matters The citizens from two very different Michigan communities—small town Evart and industrial Flint—have found their futures inextricably linked by a threat to the one thing that all life requires: water. How you can take action Join our campaigns Help us fight to Unbottle Water in San Bernardino, the Great Lakes, and…
Why This Fight Matters The Story of Stuff Project launched a campaign against Nestlé Waters in 2015 after learning that the world’s largest water bottling company had been taking water for years from public land in Southern California, without paying anything for it and without any monitoring or regulation. This case is an alarming example…
Oregon We need an Oregon Reusable Beverage Container Act, which would tackle litter, plastic pollution, and create good green jobs. Imagine, for example, 25% of bottled water and soda being sold in packaging that gets returned, washed, refilled and reused. Ways to Take Action 1. Send a Postcard to Your Reps Mail a handwritten postcard…
Summer has begun, and so have the heat waves. Did you know that the cool beverage bottle you reach for when it gets too hot is a major contributor to climate change? We’re not talking about the product – we’re talking about the packaging. The beverage industry sells more than 580 billion PET plastic bottles…
