Tackling the plastic disaster

Ey up my faithful blogworms, been away for a bit again, have you missed me ?

We've been beavering away recently on the "free water refill scheme" again and have now met a wonderful lady by the name of Anne Cuthbertson who has taken the bull by the horns and has set up a new facebook group to co-ordinate the scheme.

Annes new group is called "Wharfedale Tackles Plastic". She and her team have managed to get Yorkshire Water on board, which is a great achievement and will help drive this forwards. Pop over and have a look at:

 https://www.facebook.com/WharfedaleTP. like the page and lend your support to this superb cause. 

Already the water refill idea is catching on throughout Ilkley with many businesses signing up to enable you to refill your water bottle for free while walking round town. 

Our hope is that this will dramatically redude the plastic waste we see lying around our beautiful countryside and get this plastic into recycling where it belongs instead of littering the countryside and ending up choking our rivers and seas and killing wildlife.

Look for the "FREE WATER REFILL" logo on shop doors and windows and drop in to refill your bottle.

We had to overcome the design of our showroom building to bring the water supply all the way from the cellar at the back to a display that we have near our front door. Running the pipework around the back of our existing displays and blind drilling through various walls was a challenge to say the least but it proves it can be done.

All you need to do is download to app to your phone and you will be able to see where you can get refills. This scheme is nationwide and growing in strength, so wherever you are, you should be able to see where this facilty is available in your local area. Now, if you can't find outlets in your own town then it's about time someone, like Anne and the team, grasped this and launched your own scheme and became part of this revolution.

With plastic waste, not just being a local but a global problem, together we can start to make a difference and joining with different groups and approaches, we are becoming able to put pressure on manufacturers and supermarkets to cut down a lot of this waste at source by simply saying a big fat NO ! to the ridiculous amount of stupid plastic packaging we see being used every day.