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SUSTAINABLE SUPPLIER

3. What is their packaging like?
There are now many sustainable

alternatives for packaging products, such as
replacing regular single-use plastic
packaging with an eco-friendly choice. BWT
for instance opts for biodegradable bags
for their softeners and has swapped
regular packaging tape for paper tape.

4. Have they minimised food miles?

Ethical travel is not just limited to our own
carbon footprint, but also the carbon
footprint of our food. Food miles is a way to
look at the environmental journey from
when the product is created to its end
journey with the consumer. Opting for
more local production is a good way to
minimise food miles. BWT for example,
produces their wide range of domestic

water treatments based in Billingham to
ensure more locally sourced production
and a way to decrease food miles.

5. Are they reducing their usage of single Working with a new supplier is always a
use plastics? daunting experience, and there are so
Do they use single-use plastics? Or are they many different factors to consider when
looking for ways to discourage this? BWT as a trying to find the right one.

brand discourages the use of single-use plastic Here at BWT, we pride ourselves on being
bottles and is focused on sustainable drinking a sustainable supplier. BWT’s DNA is SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER. 2023 | ISSUE 32
water; whether it’s through the accessibility of formed from our efforts in social
mineralized water from your tap, or a responsibility, sustainability, and our
sustainable water bottle or jug for travelling conscious use of limited resources. Our
and on the move. vision to "Change the World – sip by sip" is
what we strive towards. Let us all do our
part to save our Planet Blue.

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