Refill your bottle free at Refill Köln stations

Skip the plastic bottle, fill up at a trusted tap

Refill Köln is a Zero Waste Köln project turning willing shops, cafés, cultural venues, and restaurants across Cologne into free drinking-water stops for anyone with an empty bottle.

What you can do

• Look for the round blue "Refill Station" sticker in a window, then ask to fill your bottle with tap water: free in shops, restaurants may add a small service charge
• Respect that every station joins voluntarily and unpaid, so a full till, a grubby bottle, or a big canister can mean a polite no
• Ask your favourite café, shop, or workplace to become a station by emailing refill@zerowastekoeln.de: all it needs is regular opening hours and a way to fill bottles

How it works

Refill Köln plugs into the nationwide Refill Deutschland network under the Zero Waste Germany umbrella, so the blue sticker means the same thing wherever you spot it across the country.

Why it matters

Cologne's tap water is closely tested and costs well under a cent a litre, yet plastic bottles still pile up citywide. Choosing a refill over a new bottle is a small swap that could spare Germany billions of plastic bottles a year if the habit catches on.

Source & repost

Shared here so you can get inspired or find action already happening near you. Solarpunker does not own or organise it. Source: Zero Waste Köln: Refill Köln, part of Refill Deutschland and Zero Waste Germany.