Amway and eSpring win GPEC Environmental Award
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- Published on Tuesday, 09 February 2010 15:26
- Written by Amway Watch
Amway's eSpring home water treatment system has been recognized by the Society of Plastics Engineers for a 2010 GPEC Environmental Stewardship Award. The awards recognize corporations and other institutions that have demonstrated environmental leadership and excellence through significant achievements in a variety of categories.
The eSpring System is an innovative water purifier that incorporates a sustainable design without sacrificing the features and benefits that consumers desire. The use of GaBi software allowed the design team to measure the effects of design and material variables so that the effect to the environment could be minimized, but still retain critical capabilities of the system. This led to a design that had less of an environmental impact than the previous design, while still providing superior water filtration capabilities, eliminating 99.9% of disease-causing bacteria and viruses and filtering out more than 140 contaminants that could affect human health. The newly redesigned eSpring unit, launching this spring in Japan, has less plastic content, uses nearly half the energy of the previous model and has reduced its global warming potential by 46 percent.
The eSpring System is an innovative water purifier that incorporates a sustainable design without sacrificing the features and benefits that consumers desire. The use of GaBi software allowed the design team to measure the effects of design and material variables so that the effect to the environment could be minimized, but still retain critical capabilities of the system. This led to a design that had less of an environmental impact than the previous design, while still providing superior water filtration capabilities, eliminating 99.9% of disease-causing bacteria and viruses and filtering out more than 140 contaminants that could affect human health.
