05 | 2008

Bottle Applications
Australia’s
First Natural
Spring
Water in
PLA Bottles
Cool Change Natural Spring Water from Australia is
owned by the Paterson Family, Helen, James and
Richard. Cool Change was set up in March 2008
to launch the NatureWorks Ingeo TM PLA bottled water
product in Australia.
The Paterson family also own Yarra Valley Spring Water
(YVSW), a bulk and bottled water business based on their
farm at Launching Place in Victoria‘s Yarra Valley. YVSW
produces a glass bottled sparkling water and also supplies
other water bottlers with bulk water. Whilst the world
around them is coming to terms with climate change,
the Paterson family decided that they wanted to be part
of the solution rather than the problem, by starting with a
few simple steps such as decreasing their energy usage,
offsetting their carbon emissions, the logical next step was
to start to revise their packaging and their contribution to
landfill. That was the begining of Cool Change.
It all started in 1986 when the Patersons ran a tourist
property with a restaurant, horse rides and four wheel drive
tours around the property situated in the High Country of
Victoria. The water they served in the restaurant was being
fed from a spring fed dam on the property, without filtration
to the restaurant taps. After the local health inspector
suggested to bottle the water, because it was the purest
water he had ever tested, the Patersons thought he was
crazy as bottled water just wasn‘t a big thing in Australia
in 1986. A few years later, with the unconventional help of
Richard Paterson’s mother – she simply said “dig here”
– the family discovered the actual source of the spring
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