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Mr Gove said he favoured an "all in" deposit return recycling scheme that would cover all sizes of bottles. This would give the public "the greatest possible incentive" to recycle.


steps ahead in forming its own deposit return scheme It operates in a way that a 20p deposit is added to drinks sold in aluminium cans, glass and plastic. The money is then refunded when customers return the empty containers.


It’s worth noting that The Scottish government is already a few .


including Iceland,Morrisons, Te


Sainsbury’s has become the latest supermarket to join the deposit return trend at its stores, hot on the heels of its competitors Tesco, Co-op and others.


Sainsbury’s has launched a reverse vending recycling trial at selected stores which allow customers to return plastic bottles of any size up to three litres and drinks cans bought from Sainsbury’s in exchange for 5p coupons towards their shop.


Stores in Lincoln, Hull and Glasgow are undertaking the trials, in which up to 500 items can be deposited per visit, which means customers could save up to £25 off their shopping.


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Judith Batchelar, director Sainsbury’s Brand said: “We’re delighted to offffer a new way to help our customers recycle while saving on their shop.”


Late last year, in a commitment to move to a closed loop packaging system, Te


which pay customers for every plastic bottle return Jason Ta


Tarry, UK and ROI CEO said: “We are alrea Tesco began trialling in-store recycling machines,


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eliminating single use plastic wherever we can an d make recycling simpler for customers. This is another step in that direction.” “However, we know that it is going to take retailers,manufacturers and government to work together to make progress.We would urge the government to move to a single, nationwide approach to waste collection that makes it much easier for people to recycle.”


Championing the plastic bottle return scheme, recycling machines have already been installed in a number of Iceland stores. Iceland will give you a 10p voucher to spend in store for each bottle you return, although the bottles must be purchased from Iceland originally.


Morrisons has also begun trialling the schemes at selected stores. Customers can return a maximum of 20 bottles a day and receive 100 Morrisons More points in the form of a coupon for each one brought back which can then be spent in store.


Alternatively, customers can choose to donate the cash alternative (10 pence) to the supermarket's charity partner, CLIC Sargent. Andrew Clappen,Morrisons group corporate services director


said: "We want to play our part in making sure plastic bottles are collected and recycled.” Earlier this year a reverse


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vending machine designed to accept plastic bottles and


aluminium cans was also unveiled for a six-month


trial at King’s Cross in central London. This was a joint move by the UK’s recycling group Veolia and restaurant chain LEON. ff


Richard Kirkman, chief technology and innovation officer, Veolia UK & Ireland said: “A


we want to round up the millions of stray plastic bottles and cans we, as a country, are not recycling.”


YOUGOV RESEARCH SHOWS:


27% of people would walk less than five minutes to deposit a bottle or can in a reverse vending machine. 29% would walk between 5-10 minutes, 11% would walk between 10-15 minutes, 5% would walk between 15-20 minutes and 10% would walk 20 minutes or over. This means 81% of people are prepared to walk for a certain amount of time to use a revers e vending machin e


Majority of people (almost two-thirds - 64%) are primarily motivated to recycle because of an obligation to the environment - as opposed to 3% who do it as a result of societal pressure or 5% who aren’t motivated by anything.


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