You can now refill your bottle of water for FREE at Pret – and you don’t even have to be a customer
YOU can now refill your bottle of water for free at sandwich chain Pret a Manger - and you don't even need to be a customer
The high street-chain is offering free tap water to customers and passers-by in a bid to reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles.
The sandwich shop was trialling the scheme in their three Veggie Pret stores in London as well as their outlets in Manchester and Brighton.
Following the successful trial, the high street chain announced the water stations are now already available in 70 stores with plans to introduce them to even more shops this year.
If the shop does not have a water station, customers and passers-by can also ask a member of Pret's staff to refill their bottle.
The roll out has been accompanied by the deployment of Pret's new reusable bottles, which are now available at all of the chain's 370 stores.
Where can I refill my bottle for free
FILL up your bottle for free at one of our filtered water stations available in the shops listed below.
Fill up your bottle for free at one of our filtered water stations available in the shops listed below.
- Bath - Southgate Centre
- Birmingham - 1 Newhall Street
- Bournemouth - 14 Commercial Road
- Bracknell - The Lexicon
- Brighton Station
- Brighton - 42 East Street
- Cambridge - 1 Station Square
- Cheltenham - 163 - 165 High Street
- Chester - 21 - 23 Northgate Street
- Chichester - 82 East Street
- Crawley - 26 The Martletts
- Edinburgh - 135 Princes Street
- Epsom - 93 - 95 High Street
- Exeter - 247 - 249 High Street
- Glasgow - Glasgow Fort Shopping Park
- Horsham - 14 - 15 West Street
- Kingston - 23 Market Place
- Kingston - Kingston Station
- Leeds - 11 Trinity Centre
- Leicester - 25 - 27 Gallowtree Gate
- Liverpool - 1 Old Hall Street
- London - Battersea
- London - 7 Berkeley Square
- London - 11 - 13 Borough High Street
- London - 49 - 52 Bow Lane
- London - 417 Brixton Road
- London - 35 Broadwick Street
- London - 2 - 4 Camden High Street
- London - 81 Chancery Lane
- London - 26 Edgware Road
- London - 21 Exmouth Market
- London - 35 Frith Street
- London - 367b Fulham Road
- London - 57 Great Eastern Street
- London - 27 - 28 Great Marlborough Street
- London - 68-70 St Ann Road, Harrow
- London - 140 Ladbroke Grove
- London - 8b Leather Lane
- London - 7 - 8 Oxford Street, Rathbone Place
- London - 7 - 9 Queensway Station
- London - 73 Russell Square
- London - 15 Old Brompton Road
- London - South Quay Plaza
- London - St George's University
- London - 217 Strand
- London - Stratford International Quarter
- London - 41 - 45 Strutton Ground
- London - Southside Shopping Centre
- London - 152 Waterloo Road
- London - Westfield, White City
- Luton Airport - Airside
- Manchester - 27 Cross Street
- Manchester - 79 - 81 Deansgate
- Manchester - Media City
- Manchester - 34 Oxford Street
- Manchester - Piccadilly Station
- Manchester - 1 Portland Street
- Manchester - 4 Hardman Square
- Manchester - Trafford Centre (Selfridges)
- Norwich - Chapelfield
- Orpington - Nugent Shopping Park
- Peterborough - Queensgate Shopping Centre
- Reading - Thames Tower
- Salisbury - 31 New Canal
- Sheffield - 2 Fargate
- Shrewsbury - 2 - 3 Pride Hill
- St Albans - 25 - 27 St Peter's St
- Staines - Two Rivers Shopping Centre
- Tunbridge Wells - 121 - 123 Mount Pleasant Road
- Uxbridge - The Pavilions Shopping Centre
- Winchester - 25 High Street
The 500ml bottles are designed to help customers avoid single-use plastic ones - but they come with a hefty £20 price tag.
Clive Schlee, Pret's CEO, blogged about the move last year explaining that there are two schools of though within the company.
He said: "The passionate environmentalists say stop selling them altogether, while the pragmatists say make it as easy as you can for customers to use fewer plastic bottles," he said.
"We are looking carefully at both options.”
The high street chain follows other food and drink sellers working to cut the use of plastic including Wetherspoons, which already ditched plastic straws across its 900 pubs in the UK and Ireland.
McDonald's will also be getting rid of plastic straws and replacing them with paper ones. From May this year, straws will be kept behind the counter and only given out when a customer asks for it.
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Around 8.5 billion plastic straws are thrown away each year, potentially contributing to the over 150 million tonnes of plastic in the world’s oceans.
With that in mind, Theresa May is to unveil a sweeping ban on a number of products. A consultation will start later in 2018 and a ban could be enforced as early as next year.
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It means single-use plastics - like straws - could no longer be available in pubs and restaurants.
The move also follows new rules introduced two years ago forcing customers to pay a 5p charge for plastic bags, which drastically reduced the number of bags being used.
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