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Bottled water, whether in small bottles or as part of a dispensing machine, is extremely wasteful in terms of pollutants, energy in bottling, plastics and transportation. Record any use of bottled water within your businesses separately from tap water. Deciding on your targets Reducing your impacts Water use in toilets can often be reduced by putting purpose designed "water hippos" in the cistern. Urinals that flush through the night and weekend should be modernised with proximity sensors or at least with time and day controls. Processes that have traditionally involved large consumptions of water are modernising. Printing for example can now be carried out using waterless systems. This not only saves millions of litres of water, it also drastically reduces many of the pollutants that traditional printing gives rise to.
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Assessing your environmental impacts