We stand up to plastic. Do you switch to #ReFillMe?

A plastic bottle takes 450 years to biodegrade. In the world, one million of them are bought every minute, and less than half end up being recycled.

In fact, less than 7% are converted back into bottles. These Euromonitor plastic figures collected by BBC They are just the example of an increasingly visible problem of which we are already alerted by multiple channels and routes: plastic is filling the oceans and not only endangering the environment but ending the lives of many terrestrial and marine species. A problem of global magnitudes that may seem intractable, but against which we can fight at the individual level with small changes in our routine life. In Pasiona, as software developers that we are, we work every day in an office environment in which it is easy to fall into the consumption of bottled water. And so far it has been. But we have decided to stand up.

This year, our Christmas gift is a commitment: we go to the #ReFillMe and say goodbye to bottled water, like this:

Joining #ReFillMe means that our more than 160 passionate fans already have their refillable Pasiona bottle. In our offices we have an osmosis machine, which allows us not only to avoid the purchase and consumption of bottled water, but also to offer a higher quality water, ideal for human consumption and beneficial for health. We are convinced of this and committed to #ReFillMe and that is why bottled water is no longer purchased in our offices. We do not want to contribute to the millions of tons of plastic that enter the oceans each year and cause the death of a million birds and some 100,000 marine mammals every year.

We make technology for a better world. We dream of a planet where we can enjoy it. Here is our little grain of sand. Merry Christmas, Happy 2019 and Happy #ReFillMe!