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Refiller’s objectives are to promote using personal reusable food and drink containers, such as water-bottles, coffee mugs and lunchboxes, instead of consumers producing waste from meal consumption like PET-bottles, disposable plastic, cardboard and aluminium boxes. Refiller works together with consumers and take-away restaurants, cooperating in order to create innovative ways to reduce resource consumption from increased waste production and consequent littering. The project aims at creating a lifestyle where refilling is part of people’s daily lives and where younger generations will identify with it – not because it is sustainable or ecological, but just because it makes sense.

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Project Members: João Almeida (project coordinator), Stefanie Derungs (administrative and finances), Tobias Messer (communication), Michael Scheidegger (sustainability expert), Martina Wiedemar (sustainability expert), Werner Feuz (external relations)

Location: Bern

Topic: sustainable development, waste, resource scarcity, littering

Type of Activities:  campaigning, awareness, sales, education, lobbying

Goals: The objective is to decrease packaging waste mainly arising from food and beverage consumption. Our goal for 2012 is to finish our first module successfully – thus decrease the disposable coffee and tee cups at the train stations Zurich and Bern by promoting reusable mugs.

Looking for: Volunteers (Refiller-Embassadors), partners and financing

Links:  www.refiller.ch, Facebook: Refiller, Twitter: RefillerCH, contact@refiller.ch, 0789444158 (João Almeida)