CATERING
THE SOLUTION IS CRYSTAL CLEAR
Nick Simpson, Sales and Marketing Director of Eceau, the sustainable drinking water company explains why bottled water is no longer an option for commercial premises.
The facts surrounding the use of bottled drinking water make pretty grim reading to anyone with even the slightest green conscience. Water miles, i.e. transporting bottled water half way round the world (incredibly, some bottled water comes into the UK from Fuji), the piles of glass and plastic packaging waste, the depletion of fossil fuels in the manufacture of plastic bottles, all create a negative impact on the environment, which is well documented.
KINDER TO THE PLANET Whilst re-using bottles is always
going to be more efficient than recycling, the logical route is to switch to an environmentally positive drinking water system, which can reduce a company’s carbon footprint by up to 98% and achieve significant cost savings too.
Our systems have been specifically designed to provide chilled still and sparkling water to meeting and conference areas, receptions and general workspaces within a commercial environment. An instant boiling and chilled water system is also available for tea points.
An Eceau system is connected to the mains water supply and delivers exceptionally clean, crystal clear water at the point of use via a touch screen control. There are various formats available with differing capacities to meet all requirements with counter top, under counter and floor standing options.
With a robust stainless steel and aluminium construction, an Eceau dispensing system has a sleek,
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contemporary design and benefits from numerous user features including portion control, energy saving mode and auto-leak prevention.
It is important to us that we use coconut shell as the source of activated carbon in the advanced micro-filters that purify the incoming water supply as it is a waste bi- product from a renewable source and it is far more environmentally friendly than coal-based carbon.
Our systems benefit from natural refrigerant gases such as R290 or R600, products with zero impact on global warming that can still achieve an energy saving of around 15% with a higher overall refrigeration performance.
SUBSTANTIAL COST
SAVINGS TOO At just 0.06p per 700 ml bottle, our drinking water is far cheaper than any brand of bottled water. On average a company will achieve cost savings of 82% against bottled water.
Our designer bottles are available with either a contemporary or classic styling and customers can opt for an own branded option too for maximum impact.
For tea points we offer Billi, a dual temperature filtered water system offering chilled and instant boiling water on demand. A key advantage of Billi is a significant energy saving of 70% with one client reporting a saving of £50,000 on energy bills over five years as a direct result of switching over to Billi systems.
www.eceaultd.co.uk
BOTTLED WATER; WHY IT’S BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT
• In the UK alone the manufacture of plastic bottles consumes 580,000 tonnes of fossil fuels each year - the same weight as 1,896 Boeing 747s
• There is a floating garbage patch in the Northern Pacific Ocean which is estimated to be six times the size of England that contains millions of tonnes of rubbish, most of it plastic. It's the largest landfill in the world and it will never go away...
• Only one in every five plastic bottles is recycled
• Seventeen million barrels of oil are used in the production of plastic bottles every year in the US alone
• It is estimated that 3 litres of water are used to package every litre bottle of water
• Water miles: transporting bottled water around the globe adds to pollution and global warming
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