The tea bag taskforce is targeting your office kettle 04 11 2008 - 04:02:19 PM

“Brew as you are told!” is the headline in the Daily Mail today. Citing Envirowise – which is funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural affairs – the Mail quotes:

“Appoint a tea task force or tea monitor to make sure all your hot drink-making facilities are as efficient as they could be. Only boil the water you are going to use – this will avoid water and energy being wasted, and won’t leave you standing at the kettle waiting for it to boil unnecessarily.”

Whilst Government advice is timely and wise, this is something that we at Mars Drinks have been focussing on for some time. We think that the most efficient way of brewing hot drinks and saving energy in the process is to make sure the equipment you use is up to the performance. To that end, our FLAVIA® Creation 400™ is a clear winner in the energy conservation race, only heating enough water for each cup one drink at a time. And not to be outdone, the KLIX Outlook is 12.5% more energy efficient for hot drinks than the average two leading floor-standing drinks vending machines tested*.

So, whilst we always applaud energy saving initiatives and encourage businesses to do the same, we think that expecting an office to set up a tea task force is going a bit too far, particularly during these tough economic times.

*Testing carried out by an independent energy testing facility using the EMP Protocol V1.1