Tag: World Refill Day

City-wide reusable coffee cup launches in Bristol in effort to tackle growing plastic pollution from single-use cups

Stuart Mitchell

Bristol-based environmental group, City to Sea,  launched their new returnable and reusable Refill Return Cup on last months World Refill Day. The highly anticipated Refill Return Cup is an innovative and eco-friendly initiative aimed to revolutionize the way Bristolians enjoy coffee while reducing single-use cup waste. The Refill Return Cup is a reusable cup that can be picked up and dropped off at participating coffee shops across the whole city eliminating the need for single-use coffee cups. Currently, more than 2.5 billion takeaway coffee cups are used and thrown away…

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Reusable cup scheme to launch in Bristol to help tackle 2.5 billion single-use coffee cup problem

Stuart Mitchell

Bristol-based environmental charity, City to Sea, and environmental compliance scheme Ecosurety, are today on World Refill Day (June 16th) announcing the launch of the new “Bristol Refill Cup Scheme.” The innovative new project will enable Bristolians to “borrow” a reusable takeaway cup from a café and then return it so it can be used again and again, reducing waste and tackling pollution and littering across the city. Currently, an estimated 2.5 billion single-use coffee cups are used in the UK a year.  The scheme will roll out across the city…

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World Refill Day: Mayor of London taps into London’s ambition to ditch its 1 billion single-use plastic water bottle usage

Stuart Mitchell

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, is ramping up his campaign with environmental charity and behaviour change experts, City to Sea, to tap into Londoners’ desire to quit their single-use plastic bottle use. Exclusive new research released by City to Sea for World Refill Day (16th June) shows both the level of consumption of single-use plastic water bottles in the capital, but also the desire of millions of Londoners to ditch single-use plastics. The survey found that Londoners reported purchasing over 1 billion single-use plastic water bottles a year; with 3 in…

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Greenpeace, The Women’s Institute and The Muslim Council of Britain join a global coalition to demand the five top plastic polluters switch to reusable packaging for World Refill Day

Stuart Mitchell

A coalition of over 400 global organisations, including Greenpeace, The Women’s Institute and The Muslim Council of Britain have joined forces on World Refill Day to demand that the five companies named as the biggest plastic polluters commit to tackling plastic pollution through ‘transparent, ambitious and accountable reuse and refill systems’ in an open letter. The letter coordinated by environmental not-for-profit City to Sea, calls on the 5 biggest plastic polluters; Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle, Unilever, and Procter & Gamble to tackle their plastic pollution impact by switching from single-use to affordable and accessible refillable and reusable packaging. In the…

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