A HEREFORDSHIRE firm has a reason to celebrate this week as its product is on the world stage alongside politicians at COP26.

From rural Marden in Herefordshire to centre stage at the climate change conference in Glasgow, Berrington Water is doing its bit to help the planet.

Its sustainable Re:Water, from a Herefordshire spring and sold in bottles from recycle materials, has been pictured alongside US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at COP26 in Glasgow.

The firm, based just outside the village near Hereford, said it was on the brink of ruin at the height of the Covid crisis due to the closure of all hospitality.

And seeing world leaders with its water was something the firm didn't think it would ever see 18 months ago.

But when the pandemic hit, Berrington Spring Water invested everything it had in thinking up a solution to the problem of single-use plastic pollution.

The answer, it said, was a new brand called Re:Water.

Hereford Times: Re:Water, an idea from Herefordshire firm Berrington Water, has been pictured alongside US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Cop26 Re:Water, an idea from Herefordshire firm Berrington Water, has been pictured alongside US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson at Cop26

Re:Water is a sustainable, innovative and game changing range of 100 per cent recycled aluminium water bottles.

"Infinitely refillable, endlessly reusable and of course fully recyclable," the firm said.

"Bottled at source in Herefordshire by Berrington Spring Water and filled with pure English spring water.

"Re:Water is an example of a local British brand leading the way in ‘building back better’.

"We are a brand determined to shift behaviour without waiting for policy change.

"As the hospitality industry began to slowly and cautiously reopen, the interest in our product began to gather momentum."

It said after orders from businesses including Gloucester Services on the M5, Itsu and TGI Fridays, the firm's "biggest successes to date" were securing the contracts to supply water to the G7 summit and the United Nations' COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow.

"Watching Boris Johnson and Joe Biden sitting at a table with our Re:Water bottles, designed especially for COP26, in front of them is a moment, 18 months ago, we thought we’d never see," the firm said.