Champion a refill culture in your organisation

Water bottle refill station

A rapidly growing movement of organisations and communities across London, UK, is taking action to remove single-use plastic water bottles from their workplaces, shops and supply chains. These organisations and communities are going #OneLess and championing a new refill culture.

Around the world, one million plastic bottles are bought every minute. This figure is expected to increase by 20% by 2021

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Benefits

  • Reduces use of single-use bottles
  • Can create large change quickly if integrated into company policy
  • Simple to communicate and implement

Challenges

  • Does not tackle other single-use plastic use directly
  • May involve asking outside vendors to change their behaviours
  • May require change in company culture

Making a difference

The #OneLess movement has built a network of 90 organisations, and together they’ve eliminated over 4 million single-use plastic water bottles.

There are hundreds of other ways to solve plastic pollution

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