Hertsmere Borough Council is supporting Refill Hertfordshire’s mission to make refilling your water bottle easy, convenient and totally free.
The new scheme encourages cafes, bars, restaurants and any other public-facing business with a tap, to register themselves as a Refill Station for free on the Refill app and put a sticker in their window alerting passers-by to the fact that they’re welcome to fill up their bottles for free.
Refill is an award-winning campaign, which was launched by the not-for-profit organisation City to Sea in 2015 and is now being rolled out nationwide with support from Water UK and local water companies, such as Affinity Water in Hertfordshire. As part of this national campaign Refill Hertfordshire has now been launched.
In the UK 13 billion single-use plastic bottles are used each year - this includes all fizzy drinks, milk and toiletry bottles. A shocking 60% of these are water bottles – that’s 7.7 billion bottles that could be easily avoided, if only we were refilling our reusable water bottles instead of buying single-use ones.
There are over 300 Refill Stations registered throughout Hertfordshire, but we are keen on signing up as many as possible - so if you have a tap that could become a Refill Station, please register yourself on the app or via www.refill.org.uk.
If just one in ten Brits refilled once a week, we’d have 340 million less plastic bottles a year in circulation! It’s estimated that nationally the Refill scheme will cut plastic bottle use by tens of millions each year, as well as substantially increasing the availability of high-quality drinking water.
Make sure that before you leave your house you remember your reusables, so that you can easily refill your drinks bottle on the go.
Find out more about Refill Hertfordshire and how you can help reduce your plastic use further at www.wasteaware.org.uk/reusables.
You can also visit the Refill website at www.refill.org.uk to download the free Refill app, register as a Refill Station and find out more about the Refill movement.
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