Bottleless water coolers for your office: a big win for sustainability, a potential win for your finances

Did you know that 90% of the cost of your office water cooler’s water is something *other than water*?

Many offices have water coolers with those 5 gallon jugs on top of them. It’s obviously better than having individual single-serve plastic water bottles, but financially, it is an expense your office might be able to avoid. In addition, it has huge environmental consequences (see here for more on that).

There’s the cost of manufacturing plastic jugs. Then filling them with water at bottling plants. Then shipping them from the plant to distribution centers. Then the shipping to your office. (note that all of these costs have pretty negative environmental footprints). Here’s the breakdown of the costs of the 5 gallon jugs of water that show up at your office.

As it turns out, filtering the water on site can save your office substantial amounts of money. If your office goes through more than 5 jugs per month, filtering on site makes more sense, from a pure financial point of view (and again, has all those environmental and health benefits in tow).

If your office uses 10 jugs of water per month, it can save $420 per year by filtering on site. So what are you waiting for? Check out Quench, a company that offers bottleless water coolers for home and office, and start saving the planet and saving money right away.

This post was a sponsored post by Quench, but all opinions are our own. The facts on bottleless water coolers speak for themselves!

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