GILAS for workplaces
A plastic-free pantry your people will actually use.
Offices, IT parks, factory canteens and government offices go through plastic cups every day. GILAS turns every water point into a contact-free dispenser with its own supply of clean, disinfected steel glasses.
Where it fits
- Office pantries
- IT parks and co-working spaces
- Factory and plant canteens
- Government offices
The problem today
Office pantries, factory canteens and government offices burn through plastic cups every day.
- 01
A daily stream of cups
Every water and tea break adds more plastic cups to the bin, every working day of the year.
- 02
Shared mugs nobody washes
Where offices switch to mugs, they pile up in the sink and get a quick rinse at best.
- 03
Hard to report
Sustainability teams need real numbers for ESG and BRSR reports, not estimates.
With GILAS
A clean steel glass at every water point and measurable plastic reduction for your ESG reporting.
Water on tap, in a clean glass
Employees press a button for water and put the glass back. GILAS cleans and disinfects it in about a minute.
No pantry works
Use the portable variant anywhere with a socket, or connect GILAS to your existing drinking-water supply.
Numbers you can report
Usage data turns plastic avoided into a figure for your ESG, BRSR or CSR reporting.
Cycle time and pathogen-reduction figures are design targets pending independent validation. See full specifications
How to get GILAS
Built for ESG reporting
- Usage data supports BRSR and ESG reporting on plastic reduction.
- Can count towards CSR commitments when deployed in schools or hospitals you sponsor.
- Buy or lease; government offices can procure through GeM.
- Fits green-building operations goals at IGBC- or LEED-rated campuses.
Impact calculator
How many plastic tumblers could your workplace replace?
Your estimate
Plastic
- Plastic tumblers avoided per year
- 2,25,000
- Plastic waste avoided per year
- 675 kg
- CO₂e avoided per year
- 615 kg
Hygiene
- Drinks served in a cleaned, disinfected glass per year
- 2,25,000
Money
- Estimated running-cost savings per year
- ₹3,82,500
CO₂e breakdown: 1.7 t from making tumblers + 6 kg from disposal (dumped or landfilled) − 1.1 t for GILAS washing = 615 kg avoided.
A fresh plastic tumbler is hygienic but single-use; GILAS keeps every drink in a cleaned, disinfected glass without the waste. GILAS would use about 22,500 litres of water a year to clean these glasses. This is an estimate, not a guarantee of savings or health outcomes. Plastic CO₂e uses published factors; the GILAS wash figures are placeholders until our lifecycle assessment and hygiene validation are complete.
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How we calculate this
Tumblers per year = guests × drinks per guest × events per year (events), or people × drinks per person per day × days open per year: 220 for schools, 365 for hospitals, and the working days you enter for offices (default 250). You choose what share of those drinks are served today in new plastic tumblers; the rest are assumed to come in shared glasses washed by hand.
Plastic waste = tumblers × the tumbler weight you pick (default 3 g).
Hygiene: every drink is served in a glass that GILAS has spray-washed, ultrasonically cleaned and UV-C disinfected, a cycle designed to cut pathogens by 99.9% (independent validation under way). Shared-glass reuses replaced = drinks served in shared glasses today. Staff hours freed = those drinks × hand-washing seconds per glass ÷ 3,600. We do not estimate illnesses avoided, because that depends on many factors we can’t measure.
CO₂e avoided = plastic weight × (making factor + disposal factor) − tumblers × 0.005 kg per GILAS wash. Making factors, including forming into a product, are 2.569 kg CO₂e per kg for PP, 4.367 kg CO₂e per kg for PS, 3.855 kg CO₂e per kg for PET; landfill is 0.0089 and recycling 0.0064 kg CO₂e per kg, from the UK Government GHG Conversion Factors for Company Reporting 2024 (DESNZ). Burning releases the carbon in the plastic as CO₂: 3.14 kg per kg for PP, 3.38 kg per kg for PS, 2.29 kg per kg for PET (from each plastic’s carbon content; open burning also releases other pollutants not counted here). We give no credit for recycling, and treat GILAS washing and hand-washing of shared glasses as equal, so shared-glass drinks add no CO₂e either way. The GILAS wash figure is a placeholder until we measure it.
Savings = tumblers × (your tumbler cost, default ₹2, − ₹0.3 per GILAS wash) + staff hours freed × your staff cost per hour − shared-glass drinks × ₹0.3 per GILAS wash. This excludes the cost of buying, leasing or renting GILAS and of the GILAS glasses.
Payback = the GILAS price you enter ÷ monthly savings. It is shown only when you enter a price, and ignores maintenance, consumables and financing.
Water = tumblers × 100 ml per cycle (claimed, pending validation).
Results are rounded to whole numbers. The emission and cost factors are placeholder assumptions that will be replaced by figures from an independent lifecycle assessment. Real-world results depend on your cups, electricity source and how often glasses are reused.
What people say
“We removed plastic cups from three pantries without adding a single plumbing line, and our ESG report finally has a real number.”
Facility Manager
IT park campus
Sample testimonial
Do we need to install anything?
Not for the portable variant: it needs a standard wall socket, and you refill and empty its sealed tanks. Some variants can connect to your existing drinking-water supply.
Can we track how much plastic we’ve avoided?
Yes. GILAS counts every cycle, so you can report glasses served and plastic cups avoided. A reporting dashboard is planned.
Can we buy GILAS for schools as part of our CSR?
Yes. Many companies fund units for government schools or public hospitals. We can bundle units, maintenance and consumables into one CSR programme.
See GILAS in action.
Book a 15-minute demo and we’ll show how GILAS would work in your workplace.
