Millions of plastic bottles are purchased in the UK every year. Most of these bottles are not recycled. If public water fountains are installed in cities across the country, less water bottles will be purchased and more will be reused. Recent surveys support the installation of public water fountains with the majority of consumers saying tap water should be more freely available and people would be more likely to use drinking fountains instead of purchase bottled water.

Key Takeaways:

• There is a drive by environmental activists in the UK to shrink the use of plastic bottles by increasing the number of water fountains.
• Drinking foundations encourage hydration, conserve resources, cut emissions, and lessen the amount of plastic litter
• Disturbing statistics in a UK newspaper point out that 1 million plastic bottles are sold every 60 seconds across the world and that number is increasing.

“Currently, almost 36 million plastic bottles are bought in the UK each day, but fewer than half of them are recycled and they can take hundreds of years to break down once they reach the sea.”

Read more: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4659006/Call-bring-water-fountains-cut-plastic-bottles.html