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Reduce the Carbon Footprint when
Choosing a Water Butt
One of the common reasons for buying a water butt is to
conserve water, the average UK consumer water usage is
now around 160 litres per day compared with 140 litres
per day in the 80s. It is important we make these
changes in our lifestyle so that we can ensure that we
have a sustainable water supply in the future and also
save us money on our water meter. But saving water isn't
the only consideration you should make when purchasing a
water butt...
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Reducing the Carbon Footprint
One thing that most people do not consider when starting out
to conserve water is the carbon footprint of the water butt. In
the middle of summer when water butt sales are at a peak
garden4less.co.uk has 40 foot lorries delivering butts every
other week. This isn't purely down to the demand on water butts
its largely due to the size and shape of the old style barrel
water butts. In essence the lorries are travelling around the UK
filled with air and leaving a carbon footprint!!
However things are changing.
Changes in technology and the manufacturing process means
that new stackable water butts are becoming available, the space
taken up in a lorry by the old style 210 litre barrel water
butts can now be used to transport up to 5 of the new style
stackable butts.
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