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Climate Change and a former Secretary of State for the Environment, to be the keynote speaker.
Once they reach the end of their life, water cooler bottles are withdrawn from service and recycled by the distributors. A typical bottle scrappage rate will be around 2%. A wide variety of products result from the recycled material. Although polycarbonate bottles are fully recyclable, the material loses strength in the recycling process so only a small percentage can be used in the manufacture of new water cooler bottles. They are however numerous other uses for recycled polycarbonate, including: head lamp lenses, dashboards, electronic component housing, mobile phones, battery boxes, CDs, DVDs and traffic lights.
The BWCA actively encourages members to further improve the sector’s already excellent sustainability record. We help them to share experience of good practice with other members and with other businesses across a variety of sustainability goals – not just environmental but social and financial too.
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Lord Deben told the conference: “We’ve always underestimated and underrated water. Water is a sacred symbol of every world religion - everyone takes water seriously. The moment of reception of children and their naming is by water. What your industry does is close to the hearts of people. They have deeper feelings about water than sometimes they’d admit.
“We are running out of water. We are experiencing not climate change but climate disruption.” He pointed out that periodic flooding and droughts “will concentrate minds about water – lack of it or excess of it. It has always been one of the ways people look at the health of a society. Water is a crucial thing for a community”.
He went on to tell members of the water cooler industry that they need to shout louder about the environmental benefits of water coolers. “You provide water in a way that is particularly valuable in today’s world. We are going to have to change the way we carry goods in terms of our packaging. You have a plastic bottle but it is reused again and again and again. Plastic can be valuable if it is reused and reused. The watercooler is essential for providing water sustainably.”
Deben went on to provide some good advice for FMs and for everyone in business about how to deter use of single- use plastics. He said: “At the heart of any environmental change is making it easier to be good and more difficult to be bad”.
Water cooler bottles are a strong case in point. They are collected and recycled; if they are lost or thrown away, there is a penalty to pay due to a substantial deposit on each bottle. This practice, which echoes Lord Deben’s ‘make it easier to be good’ mantra, ensures these containers are not thrown away irresponsibly.
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