Author: Lucy Purdy / Source: Positive News
Heading to a festival this summer? The Co-op supermarket is trialling a ‘reverse vending machine’ to encourage festival-goers to return their plastic bottles and containers
A fleet of ‘reverse vending machines’ is coming to major UK music festivals this summer in a bid to boost plastic recycling.
On-site branches of the Co-op supermarket at Download festival in June, and Latitude festival, which took place last weekend, have already trialled the deposit and return bottle scheme, and Reading and Leeds festival will do so in August. Plastic bottles sold at the shops will have a mandatory deposit added to the price of the item.
Music-lovers will be able to return them to the machines in exchange for a voucher to spend at…
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