When will refills hit the mainstream?

Yesterday I wrote about Britain’s long-awaited national standards for recycling, which will hopefully put recycling targets back on track from 2026 onwards. Those are good and necessary, but one thing that they don’t do is help to reduce plastic use in the first place. We’ll divert more packaging from incineration and towards recycling, but we’ll still have the same amount of plastic to deal with.

So here’s another solution we’ve been waiting a long time for that may have also taken a step i...