Travel without plastic with the Water-to-Go filter bottle!

We don’t use plastic bottles during our trip. We do not buy them, refuse them if they are offered for free and don’t even touch when we find them in hotel rooms. That means that we have to get clean drinking water in other ways. We have refillable bottles and we use bottles with an integrated filter. We have recently added a new bottle to our collection. In this blog, we tell you all about the cool-looking Water-to-Go filter bottle.

How it all started

When Dave Shanks visits a clothing factory in Mauritius, he sees how 600 employees enthusiastically take their daily free plastic water bottle during their lunch break. Every day, the bottles end up in a dump the size of a football field. “No problem,” the local manager claims. “The earth will recycle them for us. This remark will change the life of the British textile representative Dave forever. He leaves the island with a new awareness and a new idea that changes his life: a company that offers an alternative to disposable plastic bottles.

Water-to-Go: a company on a mission

The idea has now grown into a serious company. A growing range of water bottles and other products contributes to the achievement of their mission, which is threefold:

Protect our customers’ health and well-being by offering safe, healthy water anywhere in the world

Protect our planet by offering an environmentally friendly reusable alternative to single-use plastic water bottles

Protect our customers’ finances by delivering clean water at a fraction of the cost of bottled water

However, pursuing these goals is not all they do. Water-to-Go is committed to supporting charities that are working on creating a better world. Through a collaboration with Malaria No More, they are fighting the deadly but treatable disease malaria. They also support the African Wildlife Foundation and other small-scale organizations.

The 75cl Water-to-Go filter bottle

We are fully behind this kind of new products. That’s why we recently added a Water-to-Go water bottle to our backpack. And we really like it! The bottle is easy to use, looks sporty and weighs only 138 grams. The filter is incorporated in the cap. You easily suck the water through the drinking spout and it closes well.

The Water-to-Go bottle distinguishes itself from many other bottles because of the unique 3-in-1 filter, originally designed for NASA space missions. A mechanical filter, an electric filter and a carbon filter ensure that 99.9% of all microbiological contaminants are removed from the water. Metals, chemicals, bacteria, viruses, parasites and even microplastics are filtered. That’s nice sip of water! More information about the unique filter? Click here.

Get your own Water-to-Go filter bottle

Because we are so enthusiastic about the Water-to-Go filter bottle we have contacted Water-to-Go themselves. You can buy the bottle trough All Day Every Daisy. Click on this and don’t forget to check out their discount codes, like a New Year’s special or the Gap Year Code!

What is the effect of travelling without plastic bottles?

Imagine going on a 2 week holiday to a warm country. You have to drink a lot of water. Every day you buy 2 plastic bottles. At the end of your trip, you have used 28 bottles. The popular island of Bali, which is a small island, receives about 4.5 million foreign guests every year. This means that on Bali alone, 126 million plastic bottles are consumed per year. For Thailand (35 million tourists per year) almost 1 billion bottles are used. In Vietnam, it would be about 280 million. Worldwide we are talking about billions of plastic bottles and that’s not necessary at all.

Also read: This is how we travel the world without buying plastic bottles of water

“Oh well, it’s just this 1 bottle.”

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