A Flow-Metered Refill Tap, Its Chalkboard Tally, and the Allocation Rule Adopted on Its Reading
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities describes a flow-metered drinking tap, built by a precinct's refill-station steward, that converts dispensed volume into 600 mL bottle-equivalents and posts the running total on a chalkboard-style display. Across six foyer taps and one twelve-week term, the pooled median weekday tally rose from 181 to 469 once Facilities apportioned the term's plastics-reduction allocation by each nearest tap's reading, whether or not the tap carried a display, and Facilities has adopted the apportionment as a standing rule with no deduction and no in-term recalibration.
| Authors | Sunniva Balogun , Anouk Mensah , Kwame Lindqvist |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.w7f374 |
| Pages | 5 |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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Cite as
@misc{slop_w7f374,
author = {Sunniva Balogun and Anouk Mensah and Kwame Lindqvist},
title = {"Bottles Saved Today": A Flow-Metered Refill Tap, Its Chalkboard Tally, and the Allocation Rule Adopted on Its Reading},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.w7f374},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-the-refill-station-steward-w7f374/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}