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Whether you're a devo-tea of a builder's brew, coffee or hot chocolate, it's time to put your mettle to the kettle. We are a nation of tea addicts, there's no denying it. We glug down about 165 million cups of tea a day, and 70 million cups of coffee, yet 2/3 of us boil far more water than we need.
Only boil what you need – any extra and you’re wasting time, money, and valuable energy.
A watched kettle never boils… especially an overfilled one. Why wait around for water you don't need to boil when you could be sitting supping a beautiful beverage?
It's not rocket science, just fill the kettle with what you need.
1. 20 gCO2 wasted by boiling more than you need (source: How Bad Are Bananas? Tim Berners-Lee, page 36). 20gCO2 is emitted by 0.0403 kWh of grid electricity, which costs £0.0056 (EST, March 2016). 165,000,000 cups of tea are drunk each day in UK (source: 1. UK Tea and Infusions Association). 165,000,000 x £0.0056 = £922,137.
2. Our own calculations based on data from The Guardian: 165,000,000 cups of tea + 75,000,000 cups of coffee, assuming on average 200ml water in each = 48 mil litres of boiled water used in UK a day. 67% people admit to over filling, on average boiling double what they need (Energy Saving Trust). So that’s 48 million litres x 0.67 = 32 million litres boiled unnecessarily each day.