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By Jennifer Sieg Anthony Newman was convinced Londoners would ditch plastic water bottles if they had an alternative. The founder of Ape2o was onto something, Jennifer Sieg finds, in our latest founder spotlight. Anthony Newman vowed to prove a point the day investors told him his idea for a no-plastic water company – now known as Ape2o – would never work out. “No one’s going to carry refillable bottles. No one’s going to pay for dispensed water. You’ll never get landowners on board. People don’t care enough about the problem,” they told him back in 2015. Meanwhile, Newman was seeing the oppos…

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