Prioritising tap water or water dispensers over plastic bottles
Waste
- Solution type
- Everyday action
- Theme
- Waste
Why take this environmentally friendly action? Giving customers and employees alternatives to single-use plastic bottles offers several benefits. These can be water fountains or simply taps in different parts of the premises. There are several good reasons to drink tap water: - Mains water is tested several times a day to ensure it is safe to drink. - Less plastic waste: only 10% is recycled worldwide, with the rest ending up in landfill or the natural environment. Even when plastic bottles are recycled, the process consumes unnecessary energy when tap water is available everywhere. - Lower CO2 emissions: a half-litre bottle represents around 82.8 grams of CO2. - Tap water in France costs less than 0.3 euro cents per litre, compared with an average of 30 euro cents per litre for bottled water.
- Sector:
- France
Its features
Environmentally friendly
- Less raw material used to make single-use bottles - Less empty-bottle waste - Lower CO2 emissions from bottle production - Lower CO2 emissions from goods transport
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