Clare Springs into action.
Have you ever visited a local water company?
The other week the Fifty Shades Greener team visited Clare Spring who are committed to move away from plastic bottles completely by the end of 2022. Clare Spring is an environmentally friendly, family run company located deep in the rolling hills of Co. Clare. With process lines 100% automated and designed to run a wide range of both glass and plastic bottles, Clare Springs distribute to shops, and nationally to hotels & businesses as a premium water product in glass bottles.
The Challenges of being an Environmentally Friendly Business
In Clare Springs efforts, they have tried plant-based plastic bottles which can be composted but they soon realised that through the delivery stacking and movement of the trucks, hairline cracks appeared in the bottles. Through vigorous testing, Clare Springs now offers “water-in-a-box” which holds 10 litres, for households and businesses to use and in the coming months will...
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Raquel Noboa
Founder & CEO
Raquel Noboa moved to Ireland from her native Spain in 1998 and has been working in the Irish hospitality sector since then. As an independent consultant, Raquel specialised in Greening businesses by reducing their use of water and energy, and their production of waste. Raquel won the title of Irish Hospitality Institute (IHI) Environmental Manager of the Year in 2015. She also led Hotel Doolin to win the Platinum Award on Green Hospitality in 2014, twice winner of the Tourism & Entertainment Award 2015 & 2016 from the National Green Awards, IBEC Environmental Awards 2016 amongst others. In 2020 Raquel started working with Secondary Schools in Ireland through the Building a Greener Future programme, to give the young generations the knowledge and skills they require to calculate their home and school's carbon emissions, so we can help build a society that is carbon conscious in the future and assist the government's NetZero targets.
