Free tap water with Refill London

Yes, I am aware of this scheme (also this is not new, Britain used to have public drinking Fountains) and I believe to be a very good idea, providing health and safety is completely applied and that free does mean free without the residents general household bills arising for this scheme, as living in London is becoming very expensive and that generates other costly problems to our society.

However, when it comes to water, I must confess that I prefer fizzy water!

We also need to look at how we can reuse the our plastics bottles effectively for the good of our environment. Personally, those that I possessed have been useful in building Bug Hotels particularly for butterflies and bees and for using to cover certain growing vegetables as it keeps them warm and deters to a degree slugs and snails, so maybe this is something that could be encouraged, particularly in all the London schools.

Hadn't heard of it before, but its a brilliant idea lets hope it gets lots of support from businesses and tourist attractions.

Excellent idea - this would be especially effective for tourists and in hot weather; it would, in any case, limit the use of plastic. You should try and roll it out in as many areas as possible - the more accessible it is the more routine it will become to use it.

It is an excellent idea. It would help reduce the production of plastic gaskets and therefore contribute a benefit to save the planet.

YES... we should as our tap water is probably a good source of plastic free water

This is a great idea and I hope it will be rolled out across London. Major train stations are an important place to have refill points because so many people take bottled water on long journeys. Good for Costa and Leon getting involved and I hope this inspires other coffee chains to do the same.

Brilliant, thank you. I agree that it should be filtered. Water is very important for health, we should all drink around 2 litres of just water a day and the quality of it is just as important. It might even help with the pressure on NHS if it is more readily available, in addition to important issues of environment and consumerism.

It is a great initiative if it stops the use of water fountains which use both plastic and electricity. To be honest I always carry my own metal water bottle (which I fill from my mains tap at home) with me if I'm going on a long journey and cannot see why others cannot do the same. I'm 64 and we didn;t drink water the way there appears to be an obsession with it now. We drank water at mealtimes - or if taking part in some extensive exercise. It will not stop the appalling numbers of soft drinks plastic bottles though and really there needs to be more of an effort to deal with this. Maybe the so-called sugar tax will do it. I also have always drunk tap water and find it perfectly palatable and think there is a lot of fuss about the 'taste' of London water. I remember reading once (maybe it is an old wives tale) that hard water is better for the heart than soft - be interesting to know.