Refill is a new nationwide scheme largely promoting refill stations with an app to show you where you can get free water out of a tap and refill your own bottle.

Go to refill.org.uk for details. Any pub, cafe, or venue with a water supply can join, identifiable with an eye-catching blue sticker.

There are dozens of them in Worcester and they are spreading fast.

Refill is backed by all the big papers, the water companies and plenty more – especially a campaign group called City to Sea, and our very own Zero Waste Worcestershire.

Around the world there are a million plastic water bottles sold every minute. The unfortunate truth is that only a small minority of them get recycled. Many float down rivers, into the sea where they pretty much last forever.

There is now a floating “garbage patch” in the Pacific Ocean that is three times the size of France!

Though it is thousands of miles away, there is bound to be a juice bottle or straw that I (or you) accidentally left on a beach currently floating around in a mid-oceanic garbage patch somewhere.

The good news is that there is also an amazing giant floating bendy pier-like vessel made by OceanCleanUp that collects plastic in the Pacific Garbage Patch.

OceanCleanUp plans to have 60 of these vessels roaming the Eastern Pacific very soon, and they will be able to remove half of it in five years.

Great though this is it is far better to not drop plastic into the sea in the first place and not buying a fresh plastic bottle with a drink is a good start.

They aim to stop millions of plastic bottles at source each year, preventing plastic pollution from entering our rivers and sea. If just one in 10 Brits refilled once a week, we’d have 340 million less plastic bottles in circulation.