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 just 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.
By registering on the Refill app, you’ll join nearly 400 other businesses in Manchester. You’ll be listed and located on a map, so users can find you easily.
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 be wrapped with your branding, improving brand awareness and showing your customers 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 disposable cup.
Research shows that introducing an additional charge on disposables is even more effective in encouraging customers to refill. A recent City to Sea pilot saw sales in reusable cups increase from 3% to 50% when they applied a charge for a disposable, rather than a discount for a reusable!