3M announced a new product today that is meant to be an alternative to bottled water, called the 'Filtrete Water Station'. The device basically takes your basic Brita water filter and combines it with BPA free reusable water bottles, skipping the step of pouring water from a filter jug to a reusable bottle.
When you pour water into the top of the filter, it directly fills 4 water bottles that can be detached and taken with you on-the-go.
3M claims that the filter works faster than your average filtering home water jug, processing 2 and a half times more water. One filter will take care of 100 gallons of water before it needs to be replaced.
1 Filtrete Docking water bottle docking station and lid plus 1 Filtrete Fast Flow Filter, 4 - 16.9 oz (500mL) Filtrete Water Bottles has a suggested retail price of $42.99. Replacement Filters will retail for $12.99, Filtrete Water Bottles (2 - 16.9 oz (500mL) Water Bottles) will be available for $15.99.
The company claims that by using the Filtrete for your water needs has the potential to keep 3,000 water bottles out of landfills.
Filters are very common, however this looks interesting, because they claim it filters water quickly. Thanks for the tip.
Yes that is the claim. I have not tried the filter so I am not sure. It is hard to find a really fast, high quality filter. It would be very exciting if this was significantly faster than others.
This is a nice filtering system. It fills the bottles fast. Easy to use, and the filter tells you when it needs to be replaced.