What do you do with your empty bathroom bottles and jars, empty washing up liquid bottles, empty detergent bottles? Rather than recycling them consider re-using them. It makes sense, buy once use many times.
If each household in Addingham, refilled just one bottle/container each month the village could save more than 19,000 bottles a year going to recycling or landfill!
1 Craven Heifer; 2 The Swan, 3 Ginger Plum, 4 The Sandwich Shop, 5 Hamiltons
Sadly, the village lost the Pura Eco shop in September 2022. The owner is now offering a consultancy service for businesses wishing to source local and natural products www.puraecosource.com
There are several other places offering refill services:
Plastic Free Silsden – Pop Up Refill Shop Silsden Methodist Church
09:30 to 11:30 1st Saturday of the month .Take your empty containers to purchase washing up liquid, shower gel, laundry liquid, anti-bac liquid soap and surface cleaner, fabric conditioner and toilet cleaner. https://www.facebook.com/groups/571564516676476/
Waste Not Ilkley, 5 Wells Road LS29 9JB
Refill household cleaning and personal care products, plus a range of wholefood dried food products (take your own containers or paper bags are supplied). A click and collect and a delivery service is available: https://wastenot.tillex.co.uk/app?vrp=30
Steep & Filter Otley Street, Skipton BD29 1DZ
An independent coffee shop, greengrocer and refill store (with a good range of household products and dried foodstuffs). https://steepandfilter.co.uk/
Miniml
for household cleaning & personal care products. Buy direct www.minimlrefills.co.uk Their products are produced locally in Cononley by the Friendly Chemical Company. The Silsden Pop Up, Waste Not and Steep & Filter all stock Miniml products.