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 1 2
‘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