Chill Out Water recognizes the importance of conserving natural resources and the benefits they provide for current and future generations. We firmly support the Johannesburg goals (World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002) and strive to help create more sustainable patterns of production and consumption Our approach focuses strategically on our major environmental impacts and those of the businesses we supply. Primarily we target conserving natural resources and minimizing pollution and place a great emphasis on recycling. Pure Food Systems Limited is strongly committed to helping protect and enhance the environment

Chill Out Water Environmental Policy in ACTION

Durable machines

The machines we provide are of an extremely high standard and we are dedicated to their maintenance. On average a water cooler can be expected to last 3 years. We can proudly boast the possession of water coolers which were built in 1980 and are still in operation today. Through extending the life of the water coolers, materials and energy are conserved and thus the environment is benefited.

Recycling

We regularly recycle machines. Rather than wasting lots more energy and resources by building new water coolers we frequently reuse materials and reclad the machines in order to protect the environment. Our policy is always to encourage the use of recyclable cups. Conventional water coolers waste mountains of cups and bottles. If one were to estimate there to be 300, 000 water coolers in the UK, and suppose there were five users per water cooler. If they were to drink one and a half litres of water per week each user would use on average 35 cups each week. The result would be fifty two and a half million cups being wasted every year!

Energy Conservation

We are keen to promote the use of plumbed-in water coolers rather than bottled water coolers. Plumbed-in water coolers provide the same quality of water as bottled water coolers but are more environmentally friendly. Plumbed-in water coolers remove the necessity for water bottles to be transported and thereby reduce the amount of fuel emissions and decrease the level of pollution. Over 1 million litres of fuel are used in delivering water bottles- the environment would benefit greatly if these companies changed to plumbed-in water coolers. Pure Food Systems manager, Nick Mattey, is deeply concerned about the environment and calculated that if the aqueduct at Nime in the south of France had not been available and the Romans had used water coolers they would have needed 5000 40 tonne lorries a day to supply the same amount of water.

 

Energy Efficient

We have successfully adapted a chiller unit for water cooler use. Our water cooler uses 75% less energy than an ice bank cooler and has advantageous cooling powers. Furthermore we have developed machines which operate solely during the time in which the business desires to man them. A typical business requires the machine for fifty hours per week but often water coolers are in use for over one hundred and sixty hours per week.