Yesterday (16th June) was World Refill Day!
On this date every year, people around the globe come together to celebrate World Refill Day. This important day is dedicated to raising awareness about the environmental impact of single-use plastics and encouraging the use of reusable bottles and travel mugs, something we at BusinessGiftUK.com are particularly keen to encourage!
Why World Refill Day Matters
The world produces an astonishing amount of plastic waste—millions of tons each year. Much of this comes from single-use items like plastic bottles and cups. These items often end up in our oceans, harming marine life, or in landfills, where they take hundreds of years to decompose. World Refill Day aims to combat this problem by promoting simple yet effective solutions: refilling and reusing. We can all get on board with that!
Benefits of Using Reusable Bottles and Travel Mugs
First up – let’s look at some of the benefits of using reusable bottles and mugs.
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Environmental Impact
By choosing to refill a reusable bottle or travel mug, you significantly reduce the amount of plastic waste. A single reusable bottle can save hundreds of plastic bottles from being discarded each year. Why wouldn’t we want to switch this up?
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Cost Savings
Investing in a high-quality reusable bottle or travel mug can save you money in the long run. Many cafes and restaurants even offer discounts for customers who bring their own mugs, like Costa and Starbucks, to name two prominent ones!
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Health Benefits
Reusable bottles are often made from materials that are safer for repeated use compared to single-use plastics, which can leach harmful chemicals into your drink. And let’s not forget the Vasa bottle, which we supply. It has a copper lining which helps fight infections (amongst a number of other health benefits!)
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Convenience and Style
Modern reusable bottles and mugs come in a variety of designs, colors, and sizes, making it easy to find one that fits your style and needs. They are also typically better at maintaining the temperature of your drinks, whether you prefer them hot or cold.
How to Get Started
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Choose Your Bottle or Mug
Look for durable, BPA-free options. Stainless steel and glass are excellent choices!
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Stay Hydrated
Carry your bottle with you everywhere. Fill it up at home, at work, or at refill stations.
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Support Local Businesses
Many local cafes support World Refill Day and offer incentives for using reusable mugs all year round! We can supply your own branded ones. Read on for details of our favourite products!
Our Favourite Reusable Bottles & Travel Mugs
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Americano Travel Cups
The Americano Travel Cup is one of our most popular branded products, and the brand itself is a top seller across the UK. These food grade quality, recycled plastic coffee cups are made and printed in the UK. They are available in a wide range of colours and include, wrap around spot colour or full colour printing.
When you learn of facts such as 0.11kg of CO2 is released into the atmosphere for every single-use cup produced and that only 0.25% of single-use cups are recycled, you realise the importance of the “reduce, reuse, recycle” campaign.
Even more so, when we tell you that around 500 BILLION single-use disposable cups are used every year. That’s around 375 BILLION not being recycled each year.
Our message here is clear: use and advocate the use of Americano refillable travel mugs to replace single use, disposable cups. Every change makes a difference.
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Baseline Recycled Sports Bottle
If there is one plastic bottle that has become a high frequency, throw away product, in the UK, it’s the plastic milk bottle.
It is estimated that 35.8 million milk bottles are used in the UK alone every single day. Of these, only around 19.8 million are recycled, which is quite disheartening considering they are easily recycled in the vast majority of UK homes. What better way to make an impact than to turn these into recycled plastic products.
Made in the UK, the Baseline Recycled Sport Bottle with flip lid is new to the market. It recycles and reimagines the common household milk bottle into a fun, refillable sports bottle. We look forward to seeing this product doing well!
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Prevented Ocean Plastic H2O Eco Base Bottle
Made from Prevented Ocean Plastic (as the name suggests) here in the UK. These refillable, sports water bottles come in a variety of colours, are food grade quality and look fashionable, too. There several bottle shapes and four different lid types which can mixed and matched, in different colours, to suit most corporate brands.
Every month, the Prevented Ocean Plastic programme prevents 1000 TONNES of plastic from entering our oceans. That equates to over a BILLION plastic bottles since this product went into production. That is a staggering amount of plastic prevented from entering our oceans and recycled into something fresh and new!
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Ocean Bottle
This is another of our favourite eco-products. Not only do Ocean Bottle prevent thousands of tonnes of plastics from entering our oceans, they also remunerate coastal communities for the collection of the waste from their beaches and waterways. Pretty cool huh?
According to their website, Ocean Bottle liken humankind’s response to the plastic crisis as being akin to “mopping the floor” rather than turning off the tap of an overflowing sink, which is quite an interersting analogy.
To give you an idea of how much of an impact this product has, for every bottle purchased, Ocean Bottle fund the collection of 11.4kg of plastic bottles – that’s around 1000 bottles recycled for every bottle they produce. Not only that, but as of September 2023, over 12 MILLION KILOGRAMS of plastic had been collected on behalf of the Ocean Bottle brand. That’s an incredible amount of good being done!
Spread the Word
Join the movement by sharing your refill journey on social media using the hashtag #WorldRefillDay. Encourage friends and family to make the switch, too! Together, we can really highlight the benefits of sustainable drinkware!
Let’s celebrate World Refill Day by committing to a more sustainable future, one refill at a time!
If you want to chat with us about reusable and refillable options for your business branded drinnkware, please get in touch at info@businessgiftuk.com or by calling 01772 429111!
