Enormous quantities of single-use plastic bottles are thrown away every day. Only a fraction is recycled; the rest ends up in landfill or in the environment, where the plastic slowly fragments into ever finer particles.
The arithmetic for a single office
An employee drinking a litre and a half of bottled water per working day accounts for several hundred bottles a year. For a team of fifty, that means tens of thousands of bottles avoided if the water is filtered on site.
What it changes in practice
- No more bottles to buy, transport, store or dispose of.
- Less handling, and less storage space tied up.
- A cost per litre far below that of bottled water.
- A greatly reduced transport footprint.
Solutions by context
For an office or a restaurant, a mains-fed fountain with filtration and chilling is enough. For an industrial site or a hotel, centralised treatment feeding several draw-off points is more appropriate.
Do not overlook maintenance
A filtration installation only delivers this benefit if the cartridges are replaced at the intervals specified. A saturated filter stops protecting and can itself become a point of microbiological regrowth.