Torridge District Council have installed a new water bottle refill station at the Northam Burrows Visitor Centre to help tackle plastic pollution. The refill station was part funded and supplied by Our Only World, a Cornish based charity set up to promote marine conservation. Partly made with recycled fishing nets the refill station will help reduce single use plastics by enabling visitors to top up their re-usable bottles with drinking water.
It is estimated that one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute world-wide. While these are widely recycled, many of them are not disposed of responsibly and often end up in the world’s ocean where they are harmful to marine wildlife such as whales, dolphins and turtles.
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