Press coverage Bluewater in the media Categories Archive 2019 2018 2020 ‘Focus only on what you can control’: A solo round-the-world sailor on isolation March 19, 2020 | Support The Guardian When I took part in the Vendee Globe, I spent three months at sea alone and on the Aviva Challenge I was alone at sea for six months. My home for that time was a 72ft boat with very few creature comforts and nothing in the way of entertainment, apart from my karaoke skills. Read more Single-use plastic bottles – ‘Ocean Enemy #1’ January 26, 2020 | Cape Business News Bluewater, a water purification technologies and solutions company, has slammed single-use plastic bottles as ‘ocean enemy #1’ at a major sustainability conference in Porto, Portugal. Mr. Bengt Rittri, founder and CEO of Bluewater, told delegates to the Sustainable Brands 2019 Oceans Summit that production of throwaway plastic bottles continues to grow despite the evidence of the environmental pollution they cause. Read more Thornton’s Budgens Plastic Free-Zone Supermarket January 17, 2020 | Deliciously Me Thornton’s Budgens has been in Belsize Park since my childhood, and along the decades has made so many changes. In the last decade or more, Budgens became more environmentally conscious and very much about helping the community and now, well, actually, since 2018, this ideal expanded towards our entire planet and not just one local community. Read more The World Is Getting Better, But There Isn’t Enough Clean Drinking Water December 31, 2019 | Forbes “We always think the world is getting worse,” says Bengt Rittri, CEO and founder of Bluewater, “yet it’s actually getting better. We have fewer diseases, more people get vaccinations, more people can read. It’s a better world. But there are side effects – we have pollutants, plastics. People have food, cars and phones but much of the world still doesn’t have the most basic thing of all – water.” Read more Water purifier company takes on plastic polluters at UN climate conference December 3, 2019 | Green Prophet Bluewater, a world leading water purification technology and solutions leader, today called on global energy, finance and environment ministers attending the UN’s Climate Conference in Madrid to take a powerful approach to tackling water quality issues that are spurring sales of polluting single-use plastic bottles of water. Read more World Must Prioritize Clean Water for All, Says Bluewater As UN Kicks Off Madrid Climate Conference December 2, 2019 | My Social GoodNews Stockholm, Sweden, December 2, 2019– Bluewater, a world leading water purification technology and solutions leader, today called on global energy, finance and environment ministers attending the UN’s Climate Conference in Madrid to take a powerful approach to tackling water quality issues that are spurring sales of polluting single-use plastic bottles of water. Read more Leading US Beverage Companies Unite for ‘Every Bottle Back’ Initiative November 2, 2019 | Sustainable Brands This week, the US’ leading beverage companies — The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and Pepsi Co— launched the Every Bottle Back initiative, a breakthrough effort to reduce the industry’s use of new plastic by making significant investments to improve the collection of the industry’s valuable plastic bottles so they can be made into new bottles. Read more Some good news for the planet as vegans celebrate World Vegan Day, study says greener diet saves water resources November 1, 2019 | Food Travel Vegans and vegetarians are helping to conserve the planet’s valuable freshwater resources says a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, reports Bluewater, a world leader in water purification technology and solutions. Read more Bluewater leading charge against single-use plastic bottles October 31, 2019 | The Ocean Race In the time it takes you to read this sentence, experts estimate that we will have purchased over 150,000 single-use plastic bottles around the planet. With over 1 million single-use bottles changing hands globally every minute, much of the plastic degrades into microplastic and ends up in our oceans and food chain. Read more You could be eating a credit card a week! October 25, 2019 | Smart Farmer Kenya From the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe we could be ingesting massive microplastics, equivalent to 5gms or a credit card a week, according to a WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) study, ‘Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People’ Reacting to the findings, Bluewater, a global leader in water purification technology and solutions, called on countries, to urgently tackle the alarming rate of plastic pollution. Read more 1 2 3 … 16
‘Focus only on what you can control’: A solo round-the-world sailor on isolation March 19, 2020 | Support The Guardian When I took part in the Vendee Globe, I spent three months at sea alone and on the Aviva Challenge I was alone at sea for six months. My home for that time was a 72ft boat with very few creature comforts and nothing in the way of entertainment, apart from my karaoke skills. Read more
Single-use plastic bottles – ‘Ocean Enemy #1’ January 26, 2020 | Cape Business News Bluewater, a water purification technologies and solutions company, has slammed single-use plastic bottles as ‘ocean enemy #1’ at a major sustainability conference in Porto, Portugal. Mr. Bengt Rittri, founder and CEO of Bluewater, told delegates to the Sustainable Brands 2019 Oceans Summit that production of throwaway plastic bottles continues to grow despite the evidence of the environmental pollution they cause. Read more
Thornton’s Budgens Plastic Free-Zone Supermarket January 17, 2020 | Deliciously Me Thornton’s Budgens has been in Belsize Park since my childhood, and along the decades has made so many changes. In the last decade or more, Budgens became more environmentally conscious and very much about helping the community and now, well, actually, since 2018, this ideal expanded towards our entire planet and not just one local community. Read more
The World Is Getting Better, But There Isn’t Enough Clean Drinking Water December 31, 2019 | Forbes “We always think the world is getting worse,” says Bengt Rittri, CEO and founder of Bluewater, “yet it’s actually getting better. We have fewer diseases, more people get vaccinations, more people can read. It’s a better world. But there are side effects – we have pollutants, plastics. People have food, cars and phones but much of the world still doesn’t have the most basic thing of all – water.” Read more
Water purifier company takes on plastic polluters at UN climate conference December 3, 2019 | Green Prophet Bluewater, a world leading water purification technology and solutions leader, today called on global energy, finance and environment ministers attending the UN’s Climate Conference in Madrid to take a powerful approach to tackling water quality issues that are spurring sales of polluting single-use plastic bottles of water. Read more
World Must Prioritize Clean Water for All, Says Bluewater As UN Kicks Off Madrid Climate Conference December 2, 2019 | My Social GoodNews Stockholm, Sweden, December 2, 2019– Bluewater, a world leading water purification technology and solutions leader, today called on global energy, finance and environment ministers attending the UN’s Climate Conference in Madrid to take a powerful approach to tackling water quality issues that are spurring sales of polluting single-use plastic bottles of water. Read more
Leading US Beverage Companies Unite for ‘Every Bottle Back’ Initiative November 2, 2019 | Sustainable Brands This week, the US’ leading beverage companies — The Coca-Cola Company, Keurig Dr Pepper and Pepsi Co— launched the Every Bottle Back initiative, a breakthrough effort to reduce the industry’s use of new plastic by making significant investments to improve the collection of the industry’s valuable plastic bottles so they can be made into new bottles. Read more
Some good news for the planet as vegans celebrate World Vegan Day, study says greener diet saves water resources November 1, 2019 | Food Travel Vegans and vegetarians are helping to conserve the planet’s valuable freshwater resources says a study by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre, reports Bluewater, a world leader in water purification technology and solutions. Read more
Bluewater leading charge against single-use plastic bottles October 31, 2019 | The Ocean Race In the time it takes you to read this sentence, experts estimate that we will have purchased over 150,000 single-use plastic bottles around the planet. With over 1 million single-use bottles changing hands globally every minute, much of the plastic degrades into microplastic and ends up in our oceans and food chain. Read more
You could be eating a credit card a week! October 25, 2019 | Smart Farmer Kenya From the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breathe we could be ingesting massive microplastics, equivalent to 5gms or a credit card a week, according to a WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) study, ‘Assessing Plastic Ingestion from Nature to People’ Reacting to the findings, Bluewater, a global leader in water purification technology and solutions, called on countries, to urgently tackle the alarming rate of plastic pollution. Read more