Enter your team size below. We calculate the plastic, CO₂, gas-car miles, and dollars your NYC, NJ, or Upstate NY workplace would save by switching from 5-gallon jug delivery to a bottleless cooler — using verified EPA, Arbor Day Foundation, Culligan Quench, and 2024 Columbia/Rutgers PNAS data.
A typical 50-person NYC office using 5-gallon water jugs goes through roughly 900 plastic jugs a year, emits about 16,200 kg of CO₂ (equivalent to ~40,500 miles in a gas car), and spends close to $9,500 per year — that's ~$10 per jug × 75 jugs/month plus a ~$40/month delivery fee (NYC market average).
Switching to a bottleless water cooler eliminates the plastic jug entirely — water is filtered on demand from your building's water line. Most offices save $7,500–$8,500 per year while cutting carbon, removing microplastic exposure, and freeing up storage space.
We install water coolers — we're not climate scientists. Every number below comes from the experts: EPA, the Arbor Day Foundation, Culligan Quench research, and a 2024 Columbia / Rutgers study published in PNAS. We just do the math for your office.
Give every workplace across NYC, New Jersey, and Upstate NY cleaner water and a smaller carbon footprint — without the jugs, the heavy lifting, or the plastic.
Replace 1 million 5-gallon plastic jugs across the tri-state region — keeping ~2 million pounds of plastic out of landfills and avoiding ~18 million kg of CO₂.
Average jugs per employee per month. Industry typical = 1.5.
Enter the exact number of 5-gallon jugs your office gets each month.
NYC market average: $8–$15 per jug plus $20–$60/month in delivery fees and fuel surcharges. Adjust to match your invoice.
Every new polycarbonate jug starts with petroleum extraction, resin production, and blow-molding. Polycarbonate manufacturing emits significant CO₂ before the jug ever holds water.
A full jug weighs ~42 lbs. Diesel delivery trucks emit roughly 1 lb of CO₂ per mile. According to Culligan Quench research, a 50-person office's annual jug service generates emissions equivalent to ~21,650 kg of CO₂ per year across production, transport, and disposal.
Returned jugs are sanitized at 140–180 °F using industrial water and FDA-approved cleaning agents. Each refill cycle adds water, energy, and chemical emissions to the lifecycle.
Polycarbonate isn't accepted in most curbside recycling streams (EPA data: overall US plastic recycling rate is 5–9%). Jugs that aren't reused take 400+ years to degrade in landfills, shedding microplastics as they break down.
A January 2024 Columbia University and Rutgers study published in PNAS found an average of 240,000 plastic fragments per liter in popular brands of bottled water — 10 to 100 times more than earlier estimates. About 90% were nanoplastics small enough to cross into the bloodstream and reach organs including the heart and brain.
Source: Qian, Gao, Lang, et al., PNAS, Jan 8 2024 — "Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy."Polycarbonate plastic can release BPA and related compounds when exposed to heat, sunlight, or extended storage. Jugs sitting in warm lobbies, sun-exposed delivery trucks, or near radiators accelerate this leaching.
Once a jug is opened, bacterial counts begin rising within hours. Open reservoirs in traditional jug-fed coolers stay exposed to ambient air for days, allowing bacterial colonies to establish.
Every time water is dispensed from a jug-fed cooler, ambient air enters the reservoir to equalize pressure. That air carries dust, mold spores, and airborne particles directly into the drinking-water supply.
Jugs are handled repeatedly by delivery drivers, warehouse staff, and office workers — touching the cap area, the neck, and the pour spout. Bacteria from hands transfers to contact surfaces and into the water.
Inside dispensing spouts, reservoirs, and drip trays, biofilms — sticky bacterial colonies — develop slowly over time. They're hard to see and harder to clean without disassembly.
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Jersey City, and Newark office buildings face some of the densest delivery-truck congestion in the country. Every diesel-powered jug delivery contributes to local PM2.5, NOₓ, and CO₂ emissions in neighborhoods that already exceed EPA air-quality thresholds on multiple days per year.
High-rises also create freight-elevator bottlenecks, loading-dock fees, and storage headaches for jugs that weigh 42 lbs each. Bottleless eliminates the truck, the freight elevator, the dock, and the storage — all of it.
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Every number updates live based on your inputs. Click any source below to view it. Default assumptions: 1.5 jugs per employee per month (industry-typical), 2 lbs of polycarbonate per empty jug, 18 kg CO₂ per jug (full lifecycle), $10 per delivered jug, and a $40/month delivery fee (NYC market average — both adjustable above).
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