Normalising refill and reuse
Refill is a campaign to help people live with less waste. The campaign aims to normalise refill and reuse behaviour by connecting people to places they can eat, drink, and shop without unnecessary packaging.
Launched in 2015 with the goal of reducing the consumption of single-use plastic bottles, the campaign encourages shops, restaurants and offices to refill drinking bottles with tap water free of charge. Those that do so are included in the Refill app, and are given a “Refill Station” sticker that they can proudly display.
Refill is a campaign by City to Sea, an environmental not-for-profit organisation that campaigns to stop plastic pollution at source. Originally launched nationwide in the United Kingdom, the campaign has grown into a global movement, with local and international Refill schemes now present in more than 20 countries globally (UK, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania). More than 20,000 businesses are participating, each of which can be found through the Refill app.
With more than 280,000 Refill Stations accepting reusables globally and almost 400,000 app downloads, Refill has created a wave of change, preventing millions of pieces of plastic from entering our waste stream and protecting our oceans for future generations.
They also include guidelines for businesses, which can be found at these links:
https://www.refill.org.uk/drinking-water-fountains/
