Replacing bottled water with filtered water straight from your kitchen tap goes a long way in lowering your carbon footprint and helping to protect the planet. It also costs you less than 2p per litre so not only do you save the planet, you also save money.
Cut down on single-use plastics
Filtered water on tap: the eco-friendly option
Bottled water has a more significant environmental impact than you might imagine, but there is an alternative.
Bottled water has a more significant environmental impact than you might imagine, but there is an alternative.
Save money and the planet
Why are plastic bottles so bad?
Did you know that every plastic bottle takes more than 450 years to bio-degrade?
If plastic bottles don’t go to landfill, they’re often incinerated, releasing toxic fumes into the atmosphere. Reusing them isn’t recommended for health reasons, and only certain types like PET can be recycled. Even then, only about 1 in 4 bottles actually makes it to a recycling plant. The rest end up in landfills or as litter in our streets and oceans.
Water miles
You’ve probably heard of food miles, where products and produce travel huge distances to reach you, resulting in a lot of carbon emissions. But have you ever considered that bottled water is guilty of the exact same crime against our planet?
22% of water sold in the UK is sourced from overseas regions, such as northern Europe, Fiji and the Himalayas. Even bottled water from the UK can travel over hundreds of miles before you get to drink it. Compare this to having fresh, pure filtered water, straight from your kitchen tap
Water waste
It’s predicted that 2 in 3 people across the globe lack access to water.
Now think about the fact that it takes THREE TIMES the amount of water to produce one bottle of water than it does to fill it. And that manufacturing water is then completely unusable because of the chemicals involved in producing the plastic bottle.
Non-renewable resources
The UK alone currently uses 10 million barrels of oil each year just to produce water bottles. And that doesn’t even include the fuel required for transportation.
If you include the energy used to process, transport and of course, refrigerate bottled water, it actually amounts to over 10 million avoidable barrels of oil every year. That’s over 600 Olympic size swimming pools of oil, year after year and enough to fill 26 million cars with fuel and drive them 13 trillion miles.
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