To wonder why this isn't a thing?

[VioletViola]

Maybe I'm missing something, or maybe it is a thing and my area is behind the times but why don't shops have vending machines that dispense water into reusable bottles?

ie. Instead of buying a plastic disposable bottle of Evian/Volvic/Whatever, you pay £X and use your own bottle, or pay £Y and you get a refillable bottle plus the drink?

We have a local vending machine for milk that works like this - why not have one for water?

I'm aware that there are places such as gyms where you can do this from a drinking fountain, but I was thinking more of supermarkets and petrol stations.

My gym has one. It dispenses different flavoured water but you have to pay £4 a month for it.

@PrincessNutella

Once I was in Arizona and they had water stores. I am not kidding. I could not wrap my mind around this idea.

Well Arizona is a desert so maybe they're more emotionally attached to water.

I'd love a Badoit fountain.

We have these on our local High Street and it's free you just put your bottle on the stand and push the button and it fills your bottle no mess fuss or hassle can't see people paying for it though

TAPS!
Reminds me of my uncle telling me about a new idea he had for a washerette, a place your could take your washing to be cleaned.
He went mad when I told him it already existed and was called a launderette 🤣

I agree with eddiemairswife I can understand this may be needed in hot countries but surely people can survive in the UK without needing to drink water every five minutes and if you cant, take water with you.

Steff--that is very cool! Unless you forget to put the actual bottle on top!

@Crankley

I agree with eddiemairswife I can understand this may be needed in hot countries but surely people can survive in the UK without needing to drink water every five minutes and if you cant, take water with you.

But the fact is bottled water is a multi million pound industry, and the plastic waste is appalling.

I've used the one at Piccadilly in Manchester loads of times, it's not new

I live in Germany where for each plastic bottle (and some other materials), you pay a ‘deposit’, included in the total price of the water/juice/beer bottle.
There are ‘bottle return’ machines at every supermarket where you give back your bottles and they give you the deposit back, it’s normally 0.25€ per bottle. Bottles go straight into recycling and nobody wastes them because you can literally get 2-3€ back per shop by simply returning your bottles.

We have a vending machine like that, in fact every house I know has at least one. We call them taps.

@EileenGC

I live in Germany where for each plastic bottle (and some other materials), you pay a ‘deposit’, included in the total price of the water/juice/beer bottle. There are ‘bottle return’ machines at every supermarket where you give back your bottles and they give you the deposit back, it’s normally 0.25€ per bottle. Bottles go straight into recycling and nobody wastes them because you can literally get 2-3€ back per shop by simply returning your bottles.

What a good idea.