As is often the case when you go on a car launch, stashed on the dashboard is a packet of sweets and a plastic bottle of water. However, on the launch of the INEOS Grenadier, they wanted it to be different, and amongst the sweets was an Ocean Bottle full of ice cold water that stayed that way all day long.

So what's special about Ocean Bottle?

It’s pretty standard in that it performs like any other double wall vacuum-insulated stainless steel bottle should. It keeps my cold drinks cold and my hot drinks hot. Ice cold drinks, soup, coffee, and smoothies are all good, thanks to its double lid that lets you sip, fill, pour and clean with joy.

It does have a better feature than those bottles with thin necks when it comes to washing as the whole top section screws off, so any dishbrush can get in and down to the bottom with ease, no having to use special bottle brushes!

It won't leak or sweat in your bag, and is 100% dishwasher safe‚ all while helping to save the ocean.

What was that about the ocean?

This is the important bit...

Ocean Bottle fund plastic collection centres in Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, with 372 communities benefiting from a formalised waste management infrastructure. Plastic collectors collect plastic in rivers, waterways and their local communities. They exchange this plastic for money and access social resources such as healthcare, education, mental health support and financial security.

Being made up of part stainless steel and part ocean-bound recycled plastic, buying just one 500ml bottle stops 1000 plastic bottles from entering the ocean. That’s not all, depending on where it’s delivered and what model it is, an Ocean Bottle product emits between 2.8 and 4.5 kg CO2 from cradle to grave - roughly the same as a one kilogram bag of rice.

Ocean Bottle pride themselves on making products that will last a lifetime, but sometimes things can go wrong, and if you ever have an issue with their product, they provide a whopping ten year repair and replacement scheme that covers manufacturing defects, and parts that have been accidentally broken.

Available in 2 sizes, and a good variety of colours.