Scandic phases out bottled water
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Hotel chain Scandic has decided to stop selling bottled water in its restaurants and during conferences. It has calculated that this move will cut fossil carbon dioxide emissions by 160 tonnes per year. Scandic currently sells around 1.2 million litres of water, equating to 3.6 million 33cl bottles, every year.
Last autumn Scandic decided to reduce fossil carbon dioxide emissions from its direct activities to zero by 2025, with an interim target of halving emissions by 2011.
Bottled water is being phased out at Scandic as part of the next focus.
“After careful consideration, we have decided that this is the right thing to do,”said Jan Peter Bergkvist, Vice President of Sustainable Business at Scandic.
“We believe that our guests are interested in taking the next step towards a sustainable future, and that everyone is starting to realise the madness of transporting water around on our roads,” he added.
Instead of bottled water, Scandic will now be offering its guests chilled and filtered water, both still and carbonated, from taps.
According to the Stockholm Consumer Cooperative Society, bottled water generates 1,000 times the carbon dioxide emissions created by the same quantity of tap water.
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