RECYCLING
How To Recycle Your Water Filter
Important notice: we can only recycle our own water filters. For other manufacturers, check their websites or use your local council recycling service. Please do not send them to us or you will have wasted the postage (and carbon!) cost.
How We’re Going Green and Helping You to Recycle Your Water Filters
Regardless of the industry, there’s a growing recognition that we all need to face up to the climate crisis and consider how our activities impact our precious planet.
At UK Water Filters we’ve always tried to be green. In fact a major reason for starting the business was because water filters help reduce the use of plastic bottles.
Now we want to reduce our carbon footprint even further.
What We're Doing
There is a lot of unnecessary plastic used in the water filters business, both with the filter casings and, as with too many products, with the packaging.
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We’re working on reducing our plastic usage by 80%.
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We have hugely reduced our packaging impact by recycling cardboard boxes to use for wrapping and void fill.
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If and when we have to use bubble wrap we only use the greener type that we air-fill in the warehouse - saving unecessary bulk / transport carbon.
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We recycle and resell filter housings wherever possible
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We recycle many of the components used in production
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We follow best green practices in our workspaces eg by using infra red heating, powered by a green electricity supplier plus using locally sourced, green stationary and so on.
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We encourage our customers to recycle their filters
- We offer refill packs wherever possible (see our list of refillable water filter options
Going greener is a serious priority for the business and we continue to work on improving our performance.
How to Recycle Your Water Filter
Here is a guide to how you can recycle or re-use your water filter.
Find your UK Water supplied filter in the list below.
Please note:
Please don't send only ONE filter cartridge back for recycling. This uses unecessary transport carbon.
It’s best to store up and send two or three - or more - cartridges at a time. Thank you.
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| Recycling Inline Types | Recycling Undersink Types | Recycling Reverse Osmosis |
All Other Types
We're continually working on solutions for specific filters. We will update this page as we make progress.
Your Questions
Q: Do I need to prepare the filter before sending it back?
A: Simply dry it out before sending in the post ie stand the cartridge on end so that any water can flow out. Please be careful to do this because if any water leaks out in the post the Royal Mail etc will probably throw it away. It will be a total waste.
Q: Do you pay for the delivery?
A: Sorry we don't pay for the delivery.
But store up your used cartridges so that you can send them in bunches 2 or 3 at a time to save on postage. To return you could use Royal Mail / Parcelforce.
Q: Where should I send them?
Important: We can only recycle our own brand of water filters. For filters made by other manufacturers, please visit their websites for guidance or contact your local council’s recycling service.
Unfortunately our address has been given out in error by other manufacturers - so we are sent filters we cannot recycle.
This is a waste so you will need to email us for our recycling address so we can check you are an existing customer and have one of our filters that we can recycle
Generally:
To help reduce environmental impact, we recommend:
Collecting your used filters and returning them together in one shipment to minimise transport-related carbon emissions.
Using your local authority recycling centre wherever possible. Local is best!
Please avoid sending just one filter cartridge on its own, as this creates unnecessary transport emissions.
It’s best to store your used cartridges and recycle two, three, or more at a time.
Thank you for helping us reduce our carbon footprint.
