Refill challenge: Northumbrian Water leaders bring campaign to Newcastle
Channel: NorthumbrianWater
Date: 2018-06-05

Around 80 of Northumbrian Water's most senior Directors and Managers pounded the city streets of Newcastle to encourage businesses to sign up to an exciting environmental campaign.
The Refill initiative, led by plastic pollution campaign group City to Sea, involves cafes, bars, restaurants and other businesses opening their doors to allow members of the public to top up their re-fillable water bottles, reducing the reliance upon single-use plastics.
Directors and managers from across the water company were split into teams and given an hour to meet the challenge of encouraging as many businesses as possible to sign up to the campaign.
During the course of the Apprentice-style challenge, 179 businesses agreed to join the campaign, with discussions to be had on many more. Each is given window stickers and can register on the Refill mobile app, so that members of the public can see on a map where they are welcome to top up.
More information is available about Refill at www.refill.org.uk.