World Refill Day, 16th June 2023
World Refill Day is a global campaign to prevent plastic pollution and help people live with less waste.
Along with our planet-protecting partners, and thousands of everyday activists around the world, we’re calling on businesses, brands and governments to join the refill and reuse revolution and help make single-use plastic a thing of the past.
As a global movement, we have the power to create a wave of change. By choosing to reuse, we’re saving millions of pieces of plastic and sending a message to the rest of the world that the solutions to plastic pollution and the climate crisis are there – and together we can keep our environment, oceans, cities and communities plastic-free for the future.
World Refill Day is coming
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JOIN THE REFILL REVOLUTION
Together we are powerful
As individuals, our small changes really do add up. But we know can’t do it alone. We need big brands, businesses & retailers to take action to prevent plastic pollution by reducing their use of single-use packaging and investing in reuse and refill systems. And we need governments around the world to hold them to account.
Choose to Reuse
Make a small change to your daily routine and switch from single-use plastic to reuse. Check out our top tips for getting started.
Find places to Refill
Download the free Refill app to find thousands of places around the world to eat, drink and shop with less waste.
Inspire change
Show the world a reusable future is possible, by sharing photos on social media using the hashtag #WorldRefillDay.
SHOW THE GOOD-GUYS SOME LOVE!
Show some support for the amazing businesses that have been powering the #RefillRevolution by supporting them this #WorldRefillDay.
Become a Partner
Email us to find out how you can get involved as an official partner for World Refill Day.
Our impact in 2022
80+
Countries with World Refill Day activity.
400+
Organisations signed our open letter calling on the biggest plastic polluters.
406
Pieces of media coverage, reaching an estimated 1 billion people.
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Million
People reached with the hashtag #WorldRefillDay
Get In touch
Get in touch if you’d like to join or support World Refill Day 2023. We’d love to hear from you!
WHY WE NEED A REFILL REVOLUTION
Our throwaway culture is polluting our planet and we need to turn off the tap when it comes to single-use plastic. Globally, we use millions of tonnes every year and it’s becoming clear that we can’t recycle our way out of our plastic problem. Plastic is not only polluting our planet, impacting communities around the world, and contributing to the climate crisis, but it’s making its way into our bodies through the air we breathe and the food we eat.
We urgently need to shift from our disposable, single-use culture to a more sustainable, circular future, with reuse & refill at the centre.
300 million
We create more than 300 million tonnes of plastic every year. Half of this is single-use.
Globally, less than 2% of packaging is reusable.
10%
Less than 10% of the plastic we use has ever been recycled.
3 in 4 people want more access to reuse and refill options*.
*City to Sea Research (One Poll 2021)
Free water refills
More than 330,000 Refill Stations offering water Refills globally!
COFFEE ON THE MOVE
Find places offering discounts and rewards for bringing your own cup.
LUNCH ON THE GO!
Find places you take your own lunchboxes to get your food to go.
WATER FOUNTAINS
Find public water fountains added by our community.
PLASTIC-FREE SHOPPING
Reduce pointless packaging when shopping, use the app to find refills.
ADD REFILL STATIONS
Help grow Refill by adding your favourite stops to Refill.
The Refill App
Free water refills
More than 274,000 Refill Stations offering water Refills globally!
COFFEE ON THE MOVE
Find places offering discounts and rewards for bringing your own cup.
LUNCH ON THE GO!
Find places you take your own lunchboxes to get your food to go.
WATER FOUNTAINS
Find public water fountains add by our community.
PLASTIC-FREE SHOPPING
Reduce pointless packaging when shopping, use the app to find refills.
ADD REFILL STATIONS
Help grow Refill by adding your favourite stops to Refill.
WORLD REFILL DAY IN THE MEDIA
FOR World refill day PRESS ENQUIRIES OR INTERVIEWS
Please call Steve Hynd, on +44(0) 7903569531, or email on [email protected]
WORLD REFILL DAY AMBASSADORS & SUPPORTERS
Aja Barber
Mary Fellowes
George Bullard
Tonia Couch
Arthur Garros
Gwilym Pugh
Craig Braun
Bonnie Wright
Rob Rinder
Elizabeth Sherr
Robert Swan OBE
Sam Bentley
Marin Alsop
Mya-Rose Craig
Jonathon Porritt
Dominic West
Caroline Lucas
Bianca Jagger
Darcey Bussell
Aeshnina Azzahra Aquilani (Nina)
Nicole Stott
Zoë Tryon
Ella Robertson McKay
Mete Coban MBE
AY Young
Petrice Jones
Clare Nasir
Dee Caffari MBE
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Kate Quilton
Alison Steadman OBE
Paul Rose
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A CITY TO SEA CAMPAIGN
World Refill Day is a City to Sea campaign. City to Sea are an environmental campaigning organisation on a mission to prevent plastic pollution.







