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Think before you drink
OUR MOST prized cultural tradition, some would say the stuff
that holds us together, is facing its sternest challenge since we
lost the colonies. Tea drinking – or more specifically, the nation’s
brewing habits – have been thrust under the spotlight to be
assessed and, potentially, regulated by groups of enforcers
known as the Tea Task Force.
Company kitchens and canteens are the latest “non-core
business activity” to come under scrutiny in the relentless drive
Sea Life
Merlin Entertainments’
towards resource efficiency. Think Before You Drink will be the
36,000sqft SEA LIFE Aquarium
at LEGOLAND California Resort,
order of the day as new ‘best practice tea-breaks’ are set in place
designed by Kay Elliott
architects, is open to the public.
by appointed tea monitors to limit time spent standing at the
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kettle, cut water usage and save energy.
Reckless and wasteful though they may be, our tea rituals are
one of the few inviolable freedoms left to us, so one imagines the
Govt-backed Envirowise must have had some misgivings before
embarking on its latest mission. However, the agency reckons to
have saved UK businesses more than £1 billion through such
initiatives over the past 14 years and says there are big gains to
Editor
Richard Sutton
be made from cutting down the 30 billion cups of water boiled
Sales manager
Julian Walter
and subsequently wasted each year.
Sales executive Of the various (voluntary) measures recommended by
Natalie Grant
Envirowise, the return of the humble tea urn should be welcomed
Sales and marketing
Roy Kemp unreservedly, for its unending supply of the dark, full-bodied
Production
Nicola Cann
brew, wasting no water and maintaining a keep-hot function for
Head of design
total efficiency.
Nigel Bell
If energy and resource efficiency is uppermost in your thoughts,
Credit controller
Kim Filby you might try bfl’s latest Environmental Performance feature on
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