A project being run to reduce single use plastic water bottles in south west Scotland hopes to be extended across the country.

Refill D&G started in Dumfries and Galloway last year and now has dozens of businesses on board.

It encourages traders to offer to fill up reusable bottles with water free of charge.

Customers can download an app to find out where the nearest business offering the service is located.

Project Manager Jayne Murdoch, of the Crichton Carbon Centre in Dumfries, said it had a number of key aims:

• reducing single use plastic water bottles
• raising awareness around plastics, specifically single use
• becoming the first region in Scotland fully covered with Refill points
• creating a community of "environmentally conscious people and businesses"
• gathering information on the other issues businesses and the public face around plastics

It started in October last year, following in the footsteps of a number of other Refill schemes south of the border.