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Ball Corporation has partnered with water bottling technology business, Boomerang Water, to offer consumers a sustainable way to stay hydrated.

Ball will provide its refillable aluminium bottles for the Boomerang Bottling System at resorts, on cruise ships, campuses and elsewhere. The technology washes, rinses, filters, fills and caps fresh water in refillable, returnable and recyclable Ball aluminium bottles, helping avert waste and carbon emissions created by the manufacture and transportation of traditional, disposable bottles. According to Ball, the alliance will see both companies recycle the bottles rather than dispose of them at their end of life, allowing them to then be turned into new bottles within 60 days. Boomerang Water co-founder, Jason Dibble, said: "Boomerang is delivering industry-leading innovation with its bottling system that can wash, fill and cap more than 3,000 bottles of fresh, premium water per eight-hour shift. The whole idea and concept is the reusability and circularity of the aluminium bottles paired with a Boomerang system. Ball's aluminium bottles are the perfect complement for our Boomerang Bottling System, since they can get re-used over and over and ultimately recycled easily at the end of their life."