IT’S AS CLEAR AS ALUMINUM
Mar 16, 2021
2 minutes
PHOTOGRAPH BY AKILAH TOWNSEND
—AS TOLD TO C.L.-C.
OPEN WATER
CHICAGO
NICOLE DOUCET
2,470%
A 2009 documentary on the proliferation of plastic waste left Nicole Doucet and Jess Page, then University of Miami students, infuriated. They spent the next five years developing Open Water—100 percent recyclable and reusable aluminum bottles and cans of purified water. In 2020, it became the world’s first carbon-neutral bottled-water company. With the tag line “more ocean, less
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