Beaches Go Green 2.0 empowers cleaner choices, reducing plastic and toxins, and inspiring action for a healthier future.
At Beaches Go Green 2.0, we believe that healthy choices for people and the planet should go hand-in-hand. In an effort to reduce plastic pollution and improve the health of our student athletes, Beaches Go Green has created our Reusable Bottles for Sports Program!
Our program connects community sponsors with local sports teams/schools to provide custom logo’d REUSABLE SIC Cups brand, double walled, stainless steel water bottles. Our intention is that the athletes will use them over single-use plastic beverage bottles. We ask that the team/school make the bottles part of the required sports uniform and have team/school leaders model the “reuse” behavior with the students. In addition, we ask that the team/school provide water refilling stations for the bottles at practices and games. Drinking from REUSABLE stainless steel or glass bottles (over plastic) is not only better for the environment but it’s better for our health.
Plastic is known to leach dangerous chemicals into our food and drink when heated and as it ages. Plastic molecules are not tightly bound together and are in a constant state of shedding. Factors such as heat, oil and acidity can accelerate this shedding of plastic particles and its chemical compounds. The chemicals used to give plastic various characteristics like elastifiers that give plastic its flexibility or rigidity or other chemicals that create color or flame retardance are also part of this shedding. Many of these chemicals are known carcinogens and endocrine disruptors which mimic hormones in our bodies and can be especially damaging to developing children and teens. In addition to the endocrine disruptions, plastic molecules are known to disrupt the gut biome and negatively impact our immune systems and brain health.
As of August, 2025, we have implemented more than 36,000 REUSABLE WATER BOTTLES through local teams with great participation and enthusiasm.
Schools who have participated in the program report that the waste stream is greatly reduced and athletes are carrying their bottles with them all over campus and beyond.
Plastic never really goes away. Only 9% of plastic has been recycled globally. Plastic breaks up into microplastics, now found in our water, soil, air, and even our body.
Heating and aging plastic leaches harmful chemicals like endocrine disruptors into drinks, impacting developing brains, reproductive systems, immune function, and gut health.
RBS empowers students to become visible leaders in sustainability while reducing campus waste and promoting health awareness through daily action.
Plastic leaches toxic chemicals into our food and drink. This is particularly dangerous for young people whose body systems are still developing.
Many of the toxic chemicals that leach from plastic are endocrine disruptors that can impact all of our major body systems including our brain & nervous system, heart & circulatory system, gut health (immune system), respiratory system, endocrine system and more!
Reusable bottles create less waste. 1 reusable bottle is estimated to save 156 single-use plastic water bottles each year.
Plastic is a petroleum based product and once created plastic never goes away. All of the plastic ever made still exists in some form on the planet with the exception of plastic that was incinerated. Incineration releases toxic chemicals into our environment. Plastic breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces of plastic called microplastics and nanoplastics that now pollute our water, air, soil and our bodies!
Only 9% of plastic is recycled globally & less than 6% in the USA
