In recent weeks, the city of Aspen has urged locals and visitors to wean themselves off of commercially sold bottled water and switch to the municipal variety, which is being marketed on the city’s website, three filling stations at local parks and on reusable containers as “Aspen Tap.”
Plastic bottles are environmentally unfriendly, many city employees and officials behind the initiative contend.
But a local entrepreneur believes he has found a way to link bottled-water use with environmental consciousness.
Paul Kurkulis is founder and president of Las Oleadas, a new Aspen-based company that’s distributing a water beverage called Oleada locally and in three other states. Though it’s sold in a plastic bottle, Kurkulis said the container is fully made from recyclable materials.
And it’s recyclable as well.
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