{"id":53691,"date":"2019-11-08T17:31:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T21:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/?p=53691"},"modified":"2026-04-15T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T16:51:12","slug":"poland-spring-madebetter-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/poland-spring-madebetter-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"How Poland Spring MadeBetter&#x2122; Promotes Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-53692\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.freshdirect.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Poland-Spring-Sustainability.jpg\" alt=\"Poland Spring Sustainability\" width=\"680\" height=\"680\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This post is published in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/fdirect.co\/PolandSpring\">Poland Spring\u00ae<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Our Springs<\/h1>\n<p>There&#8217;s more to spring water than meets the eye. Behind every bottle of Poland Spring\u00ae Brand 100% Natural Spring Water is a team of Natural Resource Managers and geologists who monitor the springs and surrounding habitats for sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re incredibly proud of our quality and sustainability efforts. In fact, that\u2019s how our bottled spring water tastes so fresh\u2014and why the Poland Spring\u00ae brand has been around for more than 170 years. We hope to keep that greatness going for centuries to come.<\/p>\n<h1>Our Bottles<\/h1>\n<p>As a water company that relies on nature, we have a responsibility to take action and protect it. MadeBetter&#x2122; is our pledge to a healthy planet. Addressing plastic pollution is an urgent priority for us. One action we\u2019re taking is to change what our bottles are made of. Using recycled plastic helps keep plastic out of oceans and landfills. That\u2019s why since 1994, we\u2019ve reduced the amount of plastic used in our half-liter bottles by over 60%. And that\u2019s just the start. By 2022, we\u2019ve pledged to use 100% recycled plastic across our still water portfolio*, starting with the 1-liter size. So that every bottle that\u2019s recycled has a chance to become a new bottle. Over and over again.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Bottles under 1-gallon size will be made with 100% recycled plastic; labels and caps are not, though they are recyclable.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is published in partnership with Poland Spring\u00ae. Our Springs There&#8217;s more to spring water than meets the eye. Behind every bottle of Poland Spring\u00ae Brand 100% Natural Spring Water is a team of Natural Resource Managers and geologists who monitor the springs and surrounding habitats for sustainability. We\u2019re incredibly proud of our quality and sustainability efforts. In fact, that\u2019s how our bottled spring water tastes so fresh\u2014and why the Poland Spring\u00ae brand has been around for more than 170 years. We hope to keep that greatness going for centuries to come. Our Bottles As a water company that relies on nature, we have a responsibility to take action and protect it. MadeBetter&#x2122; is our pledge to a healthy planet. Addressing plastic pollution is an urgent priority for us. One action we\u2019re taking is to change what our bottles are made of. Using recycled plastic helps keep plastic out of oceans and landfills. That\u2019s why since 1994, we\u2019ve reduced the amount of plastic used in our half-liter bottles by over 60%. And that\u2019s just the start. By 2022, we\u2019ve pledged to use 100% recycled plastic across our still water portfolio*, starting with the 1-liter size. So that every bottle that\u2019s recycled has a chance to become a new bottle. Over and over again. *Bottles under 1-gallon size will be made with 100% recycled plastic; labels and caps are not, though they are recyclable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69275,"featured_media":53692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2945,3260],"tags":[3238,581],"class_list":["post-53691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-producer-stories","category-sustainability","tag-poland-spring","tag-sustainability"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73032,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53691\/revisions\/73032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freshdirect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}