News - Green answer for lodging industry and hotels who want an eco-friendly alternative to plastic bottled water

Green Answer for Lodging Industry and Hotels Who Want an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Plastic Bottled Water
Water Purification and Bottling System that Feeds Off a Hotel’s Waterline Enables Hotels and Restaurants to Produce Unlimited Chilled, Sparkling and Still Water in Reusable, Designer Glass Bottles that Can Be Branded With a Hotel Logo.

Vivreau, the originator and leading supplier of water purification and bottling systems in the UK and whose clients include Hilton, Marriott, and Virgin Atlantic, has begun helping U.S. and Canadian hotels, venues, restaurants, and convention centers “go green” and substantially reduce costs by making its environmentally-friendly water/bottling systems available in North America. The system, which produces instantly-chilled sparkling and still water from a single 2’ x 3’ unit, is connected to a hotel’s water main, enabling unlimited quantities of purified water which are filled in reusable designer glass bottles that can carry the hotel’s logo and branded message of their commitment to being environmentally responsible.

Vivreau solutions enable hotels to maintain a profit from water sales and offer substantial cost savings relative to “throwaway” plastic-bottled and sparkling water, both of which have tremendous impact on the environment and leave a large and unnecessary carbon footprint. Vivreau solutions can be utilized throughout the hospitality industry, allowing a green alternative alongside current water options or as a way to eliminate plastic bottles completely. Vivreau’s water/bottling system utilizes an “ice-bank” refrigeration technology that produces high volumes of chilled sparkling and still water on-demand, relieving pressure on refrigerated storage while meeting the needs of busy hotels, banquets, restaurants, and businesses. Initial North American clients include Fairmont, Renaissance, the Kellogg Hotel & Conference Center, and Dolce Hotels and Resorts, among others.

“We all know that transporting plastic bottled water across oceans, countries, and cities on a daily basis is completely unnecessary and very harmful to the planet,” stated Vivreau North America’s President Marc Herman. “We’re very much looking forward to helping the hospitality sector make this transition to go green and save money, as we have been doing overseas for over two decades. We aim to be the new industry standard in North America.”

Americans buy an estimated 34.6 billion single-serving plastic water bottles each year. Almost eight out of 10 end up in a landfill or incinerator. Source: Container Recycling Institute
Traditional plastic bottles can take 1,000 years to degrade in a landfill. Source: MSNBC
Only 14.5 percent of plastic bottles are ever recycled—most plastic bottles end up in the trash. Source: Sustainability: The Journal of Record. June 2009

ABOUT VIVREAU USA LP / VIVREAU CANADA INC:
As the originators of the water purification and bottling system, Vivreau (www.Vivreau.com) provides companies, hotels, restaurants and convention centers the ability to offer their 'own' limitless, pure, chilled, sparkling and still water in refillable glass bottles that can carry the client's logo and branded message of their commitment to being environmentally responsible. The Company has provided the ability for 70% of Top UK 100 and leading Fortune 500 Companies to end using plastic bottled water while saving or making their company money. Vivreau is now able to offer American and Canadian businesses the same ability to serve their own limitless, chilled, pure, sparkling and still water to their clients and guests as we have overseas for nearly 25 years.

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