BLACK + BLUM Water Sticks| Charcoal Filter Hydration Old Japanese Tradition, 1 Pieces Lasting 6 Months, Wood Black

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Each pair of sticks can purify up to a gallon of water for at least three months - no plastic involved. Excellent natural properties that help reduce odor and hardness from water, and filter for better tasting drinking water.

The charcoal will release alkali ions to increase the water’s pH, release natural minerals and absorb unwanted chemicals from the water. After this cooling process, the surface will become hard and smooth and if you tap, it will make a metallic sound.It would help if you also boiled your charcoal stick at least once a month to help keep its pores open. Activated charcoalstarts to filter the water immediately, bonding with toxins for best adsorption, but you can taste the difference after about one hour. Once they're used up, simply break the charcoal into pieces and add them to a garden or potted plant to improve drainage and aerate the soil. This skeleton has a “ tremendous surface area,” according to the medical literature: The porous material contains lots of little docking spots for molecules, sort of like a sponge.

After using charcoal as a water filter for 2 months you can reuse it in the home for a further 6 to 12 months.

The Binchotan water filter is therefore 100% organic, it comes from an organic agriculture according to the Vinacontrol referential of Vietnam. At the end of its life this completely natural product can be added to your compost bin, broken up and added to plants as fertiliser, burned on the fire or even used as a shoe deodoriser! In fact, there’s so many of these small holes that just 1 gram of charcoal has enough surface area to cover one tenth the size of a football field!

You shouldn’t add anything else to the water you want to filter with a charcoal stick, this includes fruit, herbs, teas or infusions. Indeed, after use, they can be recycled to fertilize your plants, neutralize and alleviate the odors of shoes / or absorb moisture.Lashbrook found charcoal lacking in other arenas too; in toothpaste and whiteners, it can even scrape off enamel and damage your teeth.

Beware: A very small amount of flaking might occur when you drop it in the pitcher—same as when you occasionally see a teensy black fleck floating in your Brita water—but the stick will stay intact. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item.

To keep this a minimal waste item, the charcoal sticks are currently wrapped in tissue paper without the cardboard directions, so please read below. The charcoal is then removed and quickly covered with a special powder made from earth, sand and ash, and this gives the charcoal surface a whitish hue (explaining the name 'white charcoal'). They endeavour to create objects of enduring value and practicality that age well and are built to last. Each charcoal will last for 6 months as a water filter, simply recharge after the first 3 months use. The far infrared rays released by the charcoal during cooking will retain the taste of the food and eliminate any unpleasant smells.