Refill Manchester
One million plastic bottles are bought around the world every minute. They make up one third of all plastic pollution in the sea. Let’s say goodbye to the use of plastic bottles in our city.
If one in ten people in Britain refilled once a week, we’d save around 340million plastic bottles a year! Offering free water refills helps your customers to live with less plastic. And shows them that you care about sustainability.
Become a Refill site
By registering on the Refill app, you’ll join over 400 businesses in Manchester. You’ll be listed and located on a map, so users can find you with ease.
Refill found that 44% of app users spend from £2 to £5 when asking for a free water refill. And seven out of ten users view a business favourably if they offer free refills. Refill is good for business, as well as the planet.
Register your business for free at www.refill.org.uk/add-refill-station.
It’s not just water. If you offer refills when customers bring their own coffee cup or lunchbox you can register too.
Offer a water fountain
Support your local community by offering a water fountain. They can have your branding on them to show your customers that you care about the local community. Find out more on City to Sea’s website.
Cut the cups
We're promoting refill as the best option for takeaway drinks. We encourage hot drink sellers to offer a discount to customers who bring their own cup. Even better, you could charge extra to use a throwaway cup.
Research shows that a charge for throw away cups encourages more people to refill a reusable. City to Sea recently tried a pilot study. Sales using reusable cups went up from 3% to 50% when there was a charge for a throw away cup. Compared to sales when there was a money saving offer for using a reusable.