A HELMSLEY hotel is doing its bit in the fight against single-use plastics, and encouraging the public to come in and refill their water bottles.

The Feather’s Hotel is part of the Coaching Inn Group, which has signed up to the Free Water Refill Campaign.

Managing director Kevin Charity said it was estimated that here in the UK around eight hundred plastic bottles a minute were ending up in landfill or as litter which found its way into waterways and eventually out to sea.

“We’ve already removed plastic straws from our business and are looking into other ways of reducing our use of plastics,” he said.

So Helmsley residents keen to do their bit for the campaign are now welcome to call into the Feathers for a water bottle top-up - and besides, buying a reusable bottle would end up saving them a small fortune, said Kevin.

“Single use plastic bottles are expensive to produce, use up valuable natural resources and create mountains of waste once we’ve gulped down the contents,” he said.