[Fluffywelshsheep]

Tesco to roll out reverse-vending for recycling

Simeon Goldstein, packagingnews.co.uk, 08 October 2008

Nine Tesco stores in Scotland will introduce reverse-vending machines to encourage customers to make recycling easier for its customers.

The machines, which will be rolled out in January, reward customers with Clubcard points for recycling bottles and cans.

The machines will use spectrometry and photography to identify objects. They will also shred and compact the waste to help reduce the number of journeys required to collect it.

Reverse vending machines will initially be rolled out at Tesco stores in Alloa, Glasgow, Dalkeith, South Queensferry, Port Glasgow, Irvine, Ayr and Perth.

If the machines prove to be successful, Tesco will look at introducing them to other stores.

The Scottish government announced yesterday (7 October) a 3% improvement in recycling rates to 32%.

Scottish environment secretary Richard Lochhead said: "The latest figures indicate that household waste growth has stopped, and I also understand we are fast approaching the sale of the 200,000th composting bin in Scotland.

http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/851909/Tesco-roll-reverse-vending-recycling/

[Fluffywelshsheep]

some more buff here
http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/what_we_are_doing/recycling_waste/default.page?#L1

Other places in the country (uk) that has the 'vending machines'

http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/tesco_recycling_centres.page? for some reason it down't mention scotland and i don't think any sites in wales have been mention either

Linz

[Fluffywelshsheep]

i noticed it say it shut from midnight till 7am but still good

[Rosemary]

Who wants to recycle between midnight and 7am?  Apart from new mums maybe

[Sandy]

I like that idea as fineing people for wrong things in thier bins only encourages fly tipping so being positive is much better. I wish instead of speed cameras they had cameras that gave you points when you were at the correct speed, you could then save them for something errrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, like, driving lessons!!

[Fluffywelshsheep]

Rosemary i was thinking shift worker ?

Hubby came up with a Rubbish amiesty of each month or so a street got choicen to have a skip put it it so they could take old tv/washing machines etc to it and then this would discourage fly tipping. ( I was thinking it might encourage skip diving and it might not be sooo full up lol)

Linz

[Fluffywelshsheep]

btw the one in ayr is in such an odd place it's right at the entrance just off the roundabout (like a layby parallel to the roundabout)

Must still be working otherwise it would have been placed somewhere else