Bid to reduce single use plastic among rail passengers

Rail passengers are being encouraged to ditch single-use plastic as they travel. Network Rail and Bristol-based environmental charity City to Sea have installed free water refill stations and signs and digital screens encouraging rail passengers to use bottles throughout Bristol Temple Meads station. City to Sea estimates around five million single-use plastic bottles are discarded across the county every day. "By placing refilling at the heart of one of the UK's busiest travel hubs, we empowered hundreds of thousands of people to refill rather than reaching for a plastic bottle,"...