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Bristol’s fight against single-use plastics
Bristol-based social enterprise Frank Water have taken the dramatic step to stop bottling their water in single-use plastic bottles.
Instead, the water charity is encouraging people to commit to refilling reusable bottle with their new campaign #PledgeToRefill, and are now supplying water in recyclable glass bottles to businesses across the city.
The Watershed is one company who have pledged to stop selling water in one-use plastic bottles and move to glass only in their cafe.
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Frank founder and CEO Katie Alcott said: “We want to get people thinking about the single-use plastic we buy drinks in and move towards more sustainable solutions to staying hydrated on the move.”
All profits from sales of the water are spent on improving access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene in India and Nepal.
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Frank Water are by no means alone in Bristol’s battle against single-use plastics.
At the Love Saves The Day festival last month, they teamed up Refill Bristol to supply festival-goers with free water, providing they purchased a reusable bottle to keep with them over the course of the weekend.
Since being founded in 2015, Refill Bristol has seen dozens of cafés and restaurants across the city set up free water refill stations, and its message is beginning to spread across other UK towns and cities beyond the West, all with the intention of reducing plastic waste.
The Boacabar in the Paintworks recently became one of the first places in Bristol to stop serving plastic straws.
Bristol-based City to Sea have also successfully campaigned for a switch from plastic to paper cotton bud stems, and have joined forces with the team behind A Plastic Ocean, a feature length documentary film conceived in Bristol.
After several screenings in January, the fight against plastic attracted the attention of Bristol MPs Thangam Debbonaire and Kerry McCarthy, who have since taken the campaign to Parliament.
Read more: From City to Sea – tackling plastic waste
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