Expo 2015 Water Houses: 6 million bottles saved for the environment

We have now reached over 3 million litres dispensed from the Expo Milano 2015 Casette.

In this scorching summer, the many visitors crowding the pavilions find refreshment in the cool still or sparkling, but above all safe and controlled water provided by the 30 systems distributed throughout the exhibition area.

How can we translate the enormous savings into environmental terms?

3 million litres of water dispensed from the Casette have saved the environment around 6 million half-litre plastic bottles, or around 1 million kg of plastic, a veritable mountain of waste!

But how much does PET pollute?

This time we analyse the transport: to move 15 tonnes of plastic, (about 10,000 1.5 litre bottles full of water) a truck consumes 1 litre of diesel every 4 km (25 litres every 100 km). Calculating an average distance of 1,000 km, round trip (but the 'very high and very pure' water from South Tyrol to Sicily probably covers much more), the diesel consumption amounts to 250 litres, or 250,000 cm3 which, divided by 10,000 bottles corresponds to 25 cm3 of diesel per bottle.

Just to give us an idea if each of us consumed 1 l/d of bottled water (240 bottles in a year) we would consume at least 6 litres of diesel per year in transport alone.

Little do you say? Try multiplying this value by the bottles that would have been consumed at Expo, you will be amazed.