Swale Refill Scheme - Where Can You Refill in Swale?

Swale Refill Scheme

Understandably, we have all been very careful about handling other people’s belongings recently. With good reason, the Covid-19 crisis has changed the way we all work and interact, particularly with customers. However, there is another crisis threatening humanity – the climate crisis.

As we all adapt to the ‘new normal’ there are some new habits we can all get into, safely. Refill is an award-winning, consumer and corporate behaviour-change campaign to help people live with less plastic. Swale’s Refill campaign is encouraging businesses to offer refills, and visitors to remember their refillable cups and containers, to support the infrastructure needed to enable people to access reuse options.

Every year around the world we create more than 300 million tonnes of plastic – with half of this being single-use. Resources (such as oil) are being extracted, processed, transported and turned into a plastic bottle or cup which many of us with use for 10-20 minutes then throw away. Not only are we creating waste, but depleting limited resources that contribute to global warming.

2.5 billion coffee cups are used and thrown away each year in the UK – enough to stretch around the world roughly five and a half times. Swale has joined the Refill campaign, set up by City to Sea, to connect people to the places they can eat, drink and shop without the pointless packaging. Anyone can download the free Refill app to tap into a global network of places to reduce, reuse and refill. From a coffee on your commute, to drinking water on the go, or even shopping with less plastic, Refill puts the power to go packaging free at your fingertips.

With more than 30,000 Refill Stations accepting reusables globally, over 300,000 app downloads and 100 million pieces of plastic avoided to date, Refill has the power to create a wave of change and stop plastic pollution at source.

You can download the app for free and find the below businesses which are happy to take you reusable cup or bottle and provide a refill – most offer free water refills, while other offer a discount on your hot drink. Not only is this more convenient but can help save money – and the planet. Many businesses also have the Swale refill sign in their windows to indicate to passers by that they are part of the movement.

Sign up your business now: https://www.refill.org.uk/get-involved/ and email climate@swale.gov.uk to let us know!

Name	Business	Location	Offer
Secret Garden Café	Café	Faversham Standard Quay, ME13 7BS	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Faversham Chandlery	Candlery & Café	Faversham Iron Wharf Boatyard, ME13 7BY	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
The Hot Tin	Café & arts centre	Faversham St saviour’s church, ME13 8BD	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Faversham Community Activity Centre	Gymnastics and Activity Centre	23a Whitstable Road, ME13 8BF	Water bottles
Ecover @ Heaven and Earth health Foods	Shop	4A Preston Street, ME13 8NS	Water bottles & Ecover laundry products
The Swan Cafe	Café	6 Market Street, ME13 7AH	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Penny’s Pantry	Sandwich Shop	4 East Street, ME13 8AD	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Umbrella Centre	Café & Mental wellbeing Centre	Court Street, ME13 7AT	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Costa Coffee	Coffee Shop	Tesco, ME13 7AS	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Serenity Health & Beauty Salon	Health & Beauty Salon	73-74 Preston Street, ME13 8PA	Water bottles
The Leading Light		20-22 Preston Street, ME13 8NZ	Water bottles
MB Farms	Farm shop & café	4-5 West Street, ME13 7JE	Water bottles
Jittermugs Coffee, Wine & Tapas Bar	Café/Restaurant	18A Preston Street, ME13 8NZ	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Oxfam	Charity shop	9 Preston Street, ME13 8NS	Water bottles
The Yard	Café	Jacob Yard, ME13 8NY	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
FTFC Faversham Bites		Salters Lane, ME13 8ND	Water bottles
The White Lion	Pub	Selling Road, ME13 9RQ	Water bottles
Sondes Tea House & General Stores	Café	Selling, Me13 9PL	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Brewers Fayre Premier Inn	Hotel	Sheppey Way, ME9 8RZ	Water bottles
Brewers	Decorator Centre	Mill Way, ME10 2PD	Water bottles
ASDA	Café	Mill Way, ME10 2PD	Water bottles
Morrisons Petrol Station	Petrol Station	Mill Way, ME10 3ET	Water bottles
Morrisons	Café	Mill Way, ME10 3ET	Water bottle, hot drinks cups and containers
ENGIE	Construction Site	Cooks Lane, ME10 2QD	Water bottles
The Golden Hope	Whetherspoons	1 Park Road, ME10 1DR	Water bottles
Greggs	Bakery	95/97 High Street, ME10 4AJ	Water bottles
Costa Coffee	Coffee Shop	ME10 3DL	Water bottles & hot drinks cups – get 25p off your takeaway coffee when you bring a reusable cup
Starbucks	Coffee Shop	High Street, ME10 4PH	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Baileys Coffee Shop	Coffee Shop	22 High Street, ME10 4PD	Water bottles & hot drinks cups – save 20p when using a reusable cup
Morrisons	Café	Neats Court, ME11 5JS	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Costa Coffee	Coffee Shop	Queenborough, ME11 5AR	Water bottles & hot drinks cups – get 25p off your takeaway coffee when you bring a reusable cup
Morrisons Petrol Station	Petrol Station	Neats Court, ME11 5JS	Water bottles
Starbucks	Coffee Shop	Neats Court, ME11 5JS	Water bottles & hot drinks cups
Seashells Children & Families Centre	Nursery	Rose Street, ME12 1AW	Water bottles
Kent Fire & Rescue Service	Fire Station	208 High Street, ME12 1UN	Water bottles
The Belle and Lion	Whetherspoons	24 High Street, ME12 1NL	Water bottles
Costa Coffee	Coffee Shop	ME12 1NS	Water bottles & hot drinks cups – get 25p off your takeaway coffee when you bring a reusable cup
Greggs	Bakery	52/54 High Street, ME12 1NL	Water bottles
Rumour	Café	109 High Street, ME12 1UD	Water bottles
Neptune’s Beach Café	Café	Shellness Road, ME12 4RJ	Water bottles, hot drinks cups, takeaway food containers

Look out for this poster across the Swale area.