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Working towards a
better future
Corporate social responsibility, sustainability,
and caring about the planet and the people
that live on it is not a new agenda but one that
has taken longer to filter into our everyday life
than we might have hoped.
Customers are now choosing with their feet
where they shop on the high street and their
fingers when they spend online.
Change need not be headline making news, it
can be the simple things, like you reusing a
carrier bag or recognising the food miles in
your basket and choosing to shop differently.
In business we have found the same holds
true. Whilst at BWT we are proud to have our
own headline grabbing initiatives we are
equally proud to be working with our
customers, staff and suppliers in the UK to
make a difference closer to home. Differences
that can help create a far reaching ripple of
change beyond our borders.
Here are 5 simple things we have done to
help make a difference:
Recycling Cartridges
Working with our customers across the
hospitality industry and partnering with
European Watercare we have developed a
practical and cost effective recycling scheme
for our advanced water solution cartridges,
find out more here. The benefits of this simple
initiative stretches beyond providing
customers with a practical solution, it also
reduces the amount of plastic going to landfill
and the need for virgin plastics in the future.
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Recycling and Reducing waste
We have reduced the level of the
packaging we use through a process of
constant monitoring and improvement, in
doing so we have been able to get our
levels of packaging to an all-time low. The
packaging we do use whether -
cardboard, paper and plastic - is now
100% fully recyclable. Overall, in 2020,
97% of the waste we produced was either
reused or recycled.
Sustainable Offices
We are proud to have switched to a
paperless environment wherever we can
and are encouraging our customers and
suppliers to do the same! Plus all BWT
offices have now switched to LED lighting,
have separate waste recycling bins, and
have introduced a new initiative where by
our old laptops can also be repurposed
or recycled.
BWT's Bottle Free Zone
We have said no to single-use plastic
bottles! We've replaced these
environmentally costly bottles with sports
bottles enabling all our staff to make full
use of the watercoolers installed in each
office. Providing great tasting drinking
water, they also promote healthy
hydration throughout the day. We are
now also helping to make this possible for
our customers too, find out more here:
Create your own bottle free zone.