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 Shopping smarter…
For those times you're caught out and about without your flask
of tap water, pick up a (guilt-free) biodegradable and compostable bottle of Belu
Natural Mineral Water ( belu.org). The bottles are made from corn (100% renewable!) and can be commercially composted back to soil in 12 weeks
(approximately a million years faster than typical plastics).
Belu sources its water in Shropshire,
cutting transport miles. They also use
wind energy and offset any additional carbon output.
Belu contributes 100% of its net profits to clean
water projects in the UK and abroad, working with WaterAid. Belu is also working
on a ‘rubbish muncher’ to remove 45 tons
of plastic bags, bottles and other detritus from the Thames. Find Belu in
trend-setting restaurants (still or sparkling, served in glass bottles) and top supermarkets. |
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Shopping less…
We all get a thirst on. Luckily, Brits have an ingenious system
that brings us clean water for free (well, around
£1 per 1000 litres). Nonetheless, we've been conned into buying over
two billion bottles of 'blue gold' per year (average price: 95p/litre).
The emperor's new cocktail isn't just dear, it's environmentally
unpalatable, with ridiculous travel miles – Fiji, for goodness
sake? – and plastic bottles. A quarter
of the world suffers from water poverty while the rest of us guzzle
'luxury' water.
Tap water is clean and safe. Really. (See the Drinking Water Inspectorate’s website.) The trouble is, tap water isn't cool. Couldn't some celebs make flasks the hot new arm candy?
Ten out of 10 for Times restaurant critic Giles Coren. He marks down
restaurants if the waiter doesn't offer tap water first, and the only
bottle he accepts is Belu. | |
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