{"id":5118,"date":"2019-04-24T08:04:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T06:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/almar-water-solutions-launches-an-initiative-to-do-away-with-bottled-water-in-its-offices\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:21:19","slug":"almar-water-solutions-launches-an-initiative-to-do-away-with-bottled-water-in-its-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/almar-water-solutions-launches-an-initiative-to-do-away-with-bottled-water-in-its-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Almar Water Solutions launches an initiative to do away with bottled water in its offices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Stop bottled water<\/h1>\n

Almar Water Solutions launches an initiative to do away with bottled water in its offices<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Every minute, a million plastic bottles are purchased around the world, the equivalent to 20,000 plastic bottles per second. This number is estimated to increase by 20% by 2021, generating an immense amount of plastic waste. Less than half of the bottles purchased in 2016 were collected for recycling and just 7% of those collected were converted into new bottles.<\/p>\n

Every year, at least eight million tons of plastics reach the oceans, which is the equivalent of dumping the contents of one garbage truck into the ocean every minute. Also, a recent study that investigated the content of plastic microparticles in bottled water<\/strong> found that 93% of the samples contained some type of microplastic, including polypropylene, polystyrene, nylon and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).<\/p>\n

In terms of cost, one gallon of bottled water costs and requires 2,000 times more energy for production than a gallon of tap water. In addition, tap water is strictly regulated by governments, regions and provinces, while bottled water is not.<\/p>\n\n

It\u2019s time to say no to bottled water<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n

These are the reasons that Almar Water Solutions highlights in the\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0that it created for World Water Day. Not only does bottled water pollute the seas and oceans, it is also an unnecessary expense and in many cases<\/strong>, a lie. Many of the companies that bottle water take it directly from the network, only generating plastic waste that ultimately ends up in a landfill or in the environment.<\/p>\n[gem_youtube video_id=”U2BNo0fssWU”]\n

To fight this invasion, Almar Water Solutions has launched an initiative to do away with plastic bottles in all of its offices around the world<\/strong>. The company has replaced these packages with reusable bottles<\/strong> that are refilled with drinking water from the network, thus helping to fight climate change and mass consumption of bottled water.<\/p>\n

This initiative has been extended to the other companies in the\u00a0Abdul Latif Jameel<\/a>\u00a0group, including\u00a0Fotowatio Renewable Ventures<\/a>, working together to create a more responsible and sustainable business<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every minute, a million plastic bottles are purchased around the world, the equivalent to 20,000 plastic bottles per second. This number is estimated to increase by 20% by 2021, generating an immense amount of plastic waste. Less than half of the bottles purchased in 2016 were collected for recycling and just 7% of those collected were converted into new bottles.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Almar Water Solutions launches an initiative to do away with bottled water in its offices - Almar","description":"Every minute, a million plastic bottles are purchased around the world, the equivalent to 20,000 plastic bottles per second. This number is estimated to increas"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5120,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5118\/revisions\/5120"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almarwater.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}