A 'tea task force' could be employed to spy on employees filling the kettle at work, a Government body has said. Envirowise is calling on businesses to appoint tea monitors to make sure people do not waste water.
It is advising companies to use teapots instead of making individual cups of tea, and hopes to re-introduce tea urns to the workplace. They say that the moves will cut greenhouse gas emissions and, in turn, help businesses to save money.
Envirowise, which is funded by the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, estimates that more than 30 billion cups of water are unnecessarily boiled each year.
In a statement it tells businesses: "Appoint a tea task force or tea monitor to make sure all your office hot drink-making facilities are as efficient as they could be. Only boil the water you use - this will avoid water and energy being wasted."
They go on to say that employees should use a teapot when making a round of hot drinks as this "allows you to measure the correct amount of water you will need, and often tastes nicer than making tea in the cup.
Critics and politicians have branded the advice "useless". Susie Squires of the Taxpayers' Alliance said: "This is yet another example of a taxpayer-funded quango doling out useless advice. People are sick of these quangocrats wasting our time and money."
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