Refill is signing up businesses in the county who offer tap water for free to anyone who wants to refill a plastic bottle.
Michael Page, from Essex and Suffolk Water, said: “We’re trying to create a network of places locally, shops hotels, restaurants, bars that will fill up your reusable bottle with tap water for free.
“The driver behind this is you don’t need to go out and buy a plastic bottle every time you want to go and get a drink.”
“Across the world we use a million plastic bottles every minute, in the UK the average household is using around 480 plastic bottles a year but only around half of those are being recycled.
“Most of us will have some sort of reusable bottle lurking in the cupboard at home already, so you don’t need to buy anything new.
Just download the Refill app, it’s completely free, to your smartphone and the map function on there will show you where your nearest Refill station is.
You can find out more at www.refill.org.uk/
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