Benefits

Why use our high quality bamboo charcoal for filtering your water?

Using our high quality bamboo charcoal as a water filter can be both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. We think you will gain all of these benefits from our charcoal:

your tap water will taste great
you may save money (e.g. on bottled water and conventional filters)
you can reuse your charcoal in your home after filtering (see below)
you will create no plastic waste

Great Taste
Whether you live in a hard or soft water area, you will notice the benefits of our charcoal. Some of the best water in the country tastes unpleasant because it has been treated, but by using our charcoal you will uncover how wonderful the water really is.

An added benefit of using charcoal for water filtration is that charcoal contains minerals such as potassium and iron, which dissolve gradually into the water during the intial period of use, so “mineralising” the water. Many people in Japan filter their water as much for its mineralising capabilities as for its ability to filter out impurities.

Naturally, taste is subjective and tap water is subject to both regional and seasonal variation in taste, thus the effect of our water filters may be more or less apparent to you depending on these factors. However, we recommend that when you test charcoal filtered water against tap water, you taste the filtered water first followed by the tap water. This is because the taste of chlorine found in tap water tends to stay on the tongue and make whatever you drink next taste of chlorine too!

Saving money
Our bamboo charcoal works out at only 3.7 pence per litre!

Assumptions:

You have bought our 12 pc pack for £13.35 (including P&P).
You filter 2 litres a day with 4 pieces of bamboo charcoal in your 1 litre jug.

This means:

Your 12 pc pack lasts 6 months, i.e. £2.23 per month.
You will have filtered 360 litres at 3.7 pence per litre.
What is more, you can re-use the bamboo charcoal in lots of way in your home.

Re-using charcoal
Please don’t throw away the bamboo charcoal that you have finished using for water filtering. Charcoal regulates moisture, reduces odours and inhibits mould. There are many uses for it. You can put it in:

kitchen or bathroom corners that tend to accumulate mould.
the fridge, to help vegetables stay fresh for longer.
your shoes, to absorb bad odours and moisture.
the bread bin, as it discourages mould;
chests of drawers, to keep your clothes dry and discourage insects; and
a basket in the living room to freshen the air.

You can re-use your charcoal like this for 6 to 12 months depending on the circumstances and when it has finally come to the end of its life, don’t put it in the bin – crush and bury it in your garden or mix it with compost. It will help improve the quality of your soil, as the pores in the charcoal both aerate it, and provide an excellent habitat for micro-organisms - and this way there is no waste at all!