The other week I was reading something about air pollution in rural areas. We tend to associate air quality as being worse in the cities and better in the countryside. However in certain parts of the country where there are no motorways, A-roads are heavily used by haulage vehicles as well as commuters, and this greatly affects air quality.
Every year up to 36,000 people die in the UK as a direct result of air pollution. That’s a shocking statistic for a country that prides itself on having the NHS and is a key player in the modern world. Air pollution is mostly caused by road traffic and this can have a serious effect on human health. The first is NO2 or Nitrogen Dioxide, which inflames the lungs and makes them more susceptible to disease like bronchitis.
When vehicles brake the brake pads and rubber on the types release tiny particles into the atmosphere known as PM 2.5… These are very small indeed – many times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. Due to their size, they can be easily absorbed into the lungs and contribute to chronic lung disease, asthma, reduced lung function and also increase mortality from lung cancer and heart disease. All of this makes for grim reading, but as a water cooler company, how is this related?
If you have a mains fed cooler like one of aqualeader’s, you can have a water dispenser in your office and an engineer only needs to physically attend your site, twice a year to clean the machine. However, if you have a bottle-fed water cooler, you are going to rely on a steady stream of deliveries to your office every week or twice a month, for the actual bottles of water to be delivered. By doing this you are contributing to air pollution. Simply by switching from bottled cooler to a mains fed water dispenser you can cut down on your deliveries by 1500%! Think of the reduction of Nitrogen Dioxide that results in? Bottled water has a huge amount of water miles associated with it. Not only is it delivered to your office, but is shipped across the country from the bottling plant to the distribution hub, and then to a regional office.
The concept of National clean Air Day is to all does something to reduce air pollution – to do your bit why not get rid of that bottled water cooler? To make the switch today contact us now, save your business money and cut down on air pollution and plastic waste.
