High-street outlets move to ditch plastic amid environmental concerns. Nicola Davis Monday 16 October 2017 06.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/16/high-street-outlets-move-to-ditch-plastic-amid-environmental-concerns

'Pret A Manger has become the latest to take action, announcing that it has installed taps dispensing free filtered water and started selling empty glass bottles in its three vegetarian stores. The scheme is due to be rolled out to branches in Manchester from the end of October.'

This is a positive article to read, the beginning of a movement of removing plastic bottles from stores sounds like a very sustainable action. Its great to read until it states that this is only happening in three stores in the beginning and then even when it is spread across more stores, plastic bottles will still be available to buy. Due to our throw away society in the modern day, it is likely that a lot of people will still purchase the plastic bottles, also many people do not like change and will want to stick with what they are used to. The idea behind the movement is really good but it should restrict customers to only using the free filtered water by not having a second option, even though they have stated that they have had a good response to the change this may cause an outrage but when people have accepted the change they will not even think of it when pouring themselves a water. If other chains supported Pret in this movement then it would become the norm to fill up a glass bottle with free water and people will find it a bonus that it is unlimited whilst realising the added bonus of helping the environment at the same time. This would massively reduce the use and manufacturing of plastic bottles and help our planet in the future. 

Discussing this with anonymous, 2017:

"One company doing this in our country isn't going to make a massive difference, it should be banned completely for all major companies."