Quality is stable, easy to recycle, this is the key that aluminium is expected to replace plastic. From March 22nd on, plastic bottled water will no longer be sold in London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo.
The London Zoo Association teamed up with CanO Water, a canned water company, and Christopher Raeburn, a fashion designer, to design a special canned water for the London Zoo. Its aluminum bottle features a shark logo with a variety of gestures. It also reads: The jar is permanent, it is an easily recycled material that can replace plastic bottles.
CanO Water
A bottle of CanO Water priced at 99 pence, unlike ordinary cans, its aluminum cans have a special resealable opening design and can be placed in a bag like a water bottle. According to Can O Water, aluminum is more plastic than plastic Safe, it is less affected by light and air, it can prevent toxic chemicals from seeping into the water.
CanO Water is a canned water company established in 2015, focused on replacing plastic bottles with sustainable materials. When company founders Booker and White visited Thailand together, they came up with the idea of canned water.
CanO Water proposes using aluminum cans instead of plastic bottles, mainly for the high recovery rate of aluminum. White stated that '75% of the aluminum we use today was first extracted in the 19th century and it can be used indefinitely' .
The use of aluminum instead of plastic is considered as an effective way to reduce plastic contamination. According to the British Daily Telegraph, at least 8 million tons of plastics enter the ocean every year. According to the CanO Water study, British residents use 38.5 million plastic bottles per day. Only 5% of them are recycled. They claim that there are about 16 million plastic bottles in the ocean or landfill every day.
Plastics are degraded during the recycling process until they cannot be recycled. Therefore, the cost of recycling is higher than that of remanufacturing. This is an important reason to hinder the recycling of plastics. By comparison, aluminum is one of the most easily recycled materials in the world. It can maintain quality during the recycling process. White said that these aluminum cans will return to the shelf in as little as six weeks.
Since its establishment, CanO Water's aluminum cans have been sold to large British retailers, including Whole Foods Selfridges Ocado. Buckingham Palace and the Glastonbury Festival, which are well-known tourist destinations, also sell CanO Water.
In addition, CanO Water also cooperated with the British city Penzance, helping local restaurants, hotels and shops to gradually discard plastic bottles. A local supplier stated that 7,000 cans of CanO Water have been sold so far. 'Demands from ordinary people, people The sport is being taken seriously, he said.