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As Oregon’s leading producer of purified bottled water, EartH2O has a serious reputation to live up to, one it’s more than eager to firmly embrace. The environmentally-conscious, natural spring water company headquartered in Culver, Oregon is committed to a range of green business models, all while selling a healthful, essential product consumed by thousands of thirsty customers a day. Implementing a host of innovative sustainability practices is allowing EartH2O to attain new levels of efficiency and profitability that are the envy of the industry.
Their pristine water is locally-sourced, 100-percent natural and unprocessed drawn from Opal Springs in Central Oregon, an ages-old volcanic aquifer, filtered by time and thick layers of basalt. This aquifer sits 1500 feet below the surface of the earth.
The popular home and office delivery water company offers a wide variety of products, from single serving plain, distilled and electrolyte-enhanced options, to new flavor-infused personal bottles and larger home-use dispensers.
Starting in 2011, EartH2O was able to convert their line of single-serve water products to 100-percent PET, becoming the first firm in the U.S. to manufacture bottles from post-consumer waste. This year they’ll be manufacturing their own bottles using material obtained from ORPET, a cutting-edge recycling center in St. Helens, Oregon. In addition to its revolutionary business model, EartH2O was the first company to eradicate cardboard from its packaging of single-serve water bottles, saving an estimated 350,000 pounds of waste cardboard per year.
President and CEO Steve Emery is proud of his company’s considerable reputation and continued trailblazing efforts to establishing a closed-loop, zero waste water formula across the entire manufacturing process.
“EartH2O’s commitment to utilizing only recycled materials from Oregon means we are diverting significantly more waste from our state landfills,” said Emery in an official press release. “This is an important milestone in our long-standing effort to improve the communities where we live, work and play.”
The state’s economic development agency, Business Oregon, was instrumental in establishing this refreshing partnership between EartH2O and ORPET to transform recycled beverage containers into reusable material that is made into single-serve BPA-free water bottles in the EartH2O manufacturing facility in Culver.
ORPET sources these beverage containers from various recycling centers across Oregon, then sorts, cleans and converts them into a flake material. This special flake compound is transported from ORPET to Peninsula Plastics Recycling, where it is ground into resin that is molded into pellets and finally shipped to EartH2O.
Many other “natural” water brands actually come from above-ground sources using rainwater or rivers that require the wasteful process of reverse osmosis to be safe and drinkable, stripping pollutants via a network of filters that require constant cleaning. For every gallon of drinkable water, as many as eight gallons can be spent in this process for every gallon of pure water produced. Certain minerals are added back for taste before being bottled and shipped away. Without the right mineral balance, commercially-produced waters can actually be detrimental to your health.
EartH2O places vital emphasis on its consumers knowing where their waters comes from… the source, the surroundings, the processes it’s put through.
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