Tag: Refill

£475K for Refill Infrastructure projects announced in second round of UK Circular Plastics Flagship Projects grants

Stuart Mitchell

WRAP has announced Round 2 of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) competition to find innovative solutions to plastic waste. £475,000 will be awarded in Refill Infrastructure grants of between £50,000 – £150,000 for projects that trial new ways to implement refill infrastructure within an existing or new supply chain. Successful projects in Round 2 will have strong commercial potential to reduce the use of single use primary plastic packaging. Assessors are looking for inventive proposals that will challenge the status quo and change the way retailers and their suppliers…

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M&S Food Sees Rise In Customer Appetite For Refill

Stuart Mitchell

New research by M&S Food reveals that over 75% of consumers are consciously trying to reduce their use of plastic packaging.  Refillable groceries are an increasingly popular solution to support this aim, with two thirds of consumers more likely to consider using them now compared to this time last year and around one in four (23%) shoppers actively seeking retailers that offer this service.  The new findings follow the launch of M&S Food’s first Fill Your Own trial in mid-December at its Hedge End Retail Park store in Southampton – offering over…

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High-street chains and retailers including LEON, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Waitrose and Morrisons join new innovative pilot to tackle single-use plastic

Stuart Mitchell

Plastic pollution campaigning organisation, City to Sea announces the launch of a new ambitious pilot with retailers, independents and high-street chains including LEON, Neal’s Yard Remedies, Pret, Costa, Morrisons, ASDA and Waitrose to champion refillable solutions in a bid to cut pollution caused by single-use packaging. The pilot, launched this week, is the first of its kind and a natural step in the planned expansion of their award-winning Refill campaign, which already connects over 250,000 app users with 30,000 Refill Stations across the UK where they can fill up their…

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Free tap water scheme launched in London to help cut plastic waste

Stuart Mitchell

Shops and businesses around London have joined a scheme that offers people free tap water ‘refills’ as part of the Mayor of London’s plans to reduce single-use plastic bottles in the capital. The average London adult buys more than 3 plastic water bottles every week* – a startling 175 bottles every year per person. In total, some  7.7 billion plastic bottles are bought across the UK each year, resulting in substantial amounts of single-use plastic waste. The Mayor is keen for Londoners to adopt small changes that can have a…

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New national drinking water scheme backed by water companies to cut plastic bottle use by millions

Stuart Mitchell

In an ambitious drive to help fight plastic waste, water companies will join forces with the Refill campaign to create a national network of high street retailers, coffee shops, businesses and local authorities offering new refill stations for the public to top-up their water bottles for free in every major city and town in England by 2021. People will be able to use an app on their phone to find out where the nearest refill point is, or look out for special signs in shop windows. As well as being…

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