Hi Phil, 1) I carry a reusable water bottle with me all the time and I do fill up when I am traveling.
2) 1 million water bottles are manufactured every minute in the world and one third of plastic waste on beaches is water bottles . I added subtitles to this French Brut video (with their permission). It gives an overview of the water bottles plastic issue. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Mp6Gpq32xcxQ5OFfbI_gGELRAY4k6uV- 3) Your point about supermarket packaging is not so off topic. But, I think it is important not to create opposition between two important issues. Plastic packaging needs to be addressed as well. Combatting single-use plastic for water bottles has the advantage that there is an readily available cheaper alternative - high quality TAP WATER which everyone in Europe has access to (with very few exceptions). I hope people who voluntarily adopt reusable water bottles will also become more ecological conscious citizens and pressure supermarkets directly and indirectly to reduce plastic packaging. 4) Refill UK has over 25,000 establishments and there are quite a few parallel networks which are very similar. I agree 100% about the lack of transparency of Refill data. Best regards, Stuart On Sun, 15 Mar 2020 at 18:31, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 18:59 +0100, European Water Project wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > I respect your opinion about the fit for the Quarterly Project. I don't > know enough about the project criteria to have an opinion - even if I am > passionate on the subject. > > > I do understand you passion on the subject, although it does seem to me to > be such a tiny problem in terms of plastic waste. > > How often do you take water when you leave home and need to refill it? > > I know this is going off-topic but a far bigger problem is the recent > trend for supermarkets to go back to the 70s and sell fruit and vegetables > in plastic packaging again, rather than weigh it at the checkout. > > This unnecessary food packaging is by far the bulk of the contents of my > recycling box. > > > With respect to the locations, there are about 25,000 in the UK and > Northern Ireland. > > > I think their lack of transparency is a big problem, licensing as opendata > is one issue however the website doesn't even provide information in for > personal use. > > What information they do provide suggests there are none in either Telford > or Shrewsbury, or my small North Shropshire town. > > However I have since found stickers at three on cafes in my small town, > there are only five in total, so quite a good uptake. > > Phil (trigpoint) > >
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