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Greener deliveries
Free water on tap – and online
A campaign to improve access to free drinking water and reduce the public’s
consumption of bottled water has been launched by entrepreneur Guy Jeremiah,
inventor of the Aquatina collapsible pocket water bottle. The Find-a-Fountain
project will record all publicly accessible drinking water fountains via an interactive
website that will allow people to search for their nearest free water supply and
update it with details of unlisted fountains. Maps on the website also include data
provided by tapwater.org, a not-for-proft organisation that shows the location of
indoor taps where you can refll your Aquatina water bottle for free.
www.fndafountain.org www.aquatina.com
Less is more
TONERmiser from NewField IT is
a great way to make your printer
consumables last longer and in
doing so signifcantly reduce
print costs. A more economical
and, NewField would say, better
alternative to printers’ built-in
draft printing modes, it uses
patented technology to preserve
print quality while reducing
the amount of toner used by
as much as 50%. TONERmiser
can be administered centrally
and applied automatically or
it can be selected by the user
on a per job basis, with the
ability to adjust savings via the
TONERmiser slidebar.
www.tonermiser.com
News that Amazon is planning to
establish locker banks in major
shopping centres comes as no
surprise to logistics company
ByBox. It pioneered the delivery-
to-locker concept in the UK more
than a decade ago, initially for feld
service customers and then in 2009
for consumers, with the launch of
myByBox. Its network of 18,000 drop
boxes in 1,350 locations across the
UK overcomes the hit and miss nature
of conventional home deliveries, by
enabling deliveries to be made at any
time of day or night to a ByBox locker
nominated by the customer. The
ability to consolidate deliveries into
single drop-points is claimed to result
in an average of 0.1 miles driven per
delivery compared to 0.5 miles with a
conventional model.
www.bybox.com
On the move
To mark the launch of its Galaxy Tab 1.0, Samsung UK
commissioned bike manufacturer 14 Bike Co to create
a custom-made road bike with detachable carbon fbre
tablet holder. The hand-built steel frame pedal bike
refects the Galaxy Tab’s colour scheme with black paint
on one side and white on the other. www.14bikeco.com
Past and
present
If you can’t recycle wrapping
paper, what about re-using
it? Just in time for Christmas,
Oxfam has launched an
exclusive new range of memo
pads, notebooks and sketchpads
made from reclaimed wrapping
paper. They cost from £3.99.
www.oxfam.org.uk/shop
Sustainable
Editor’s Choice Award
TONERmiser