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Canary Wharf launches first UK on-site Deposit Return Scheme
2018-04-24

From: Packaging News


Canary Wharf has become the first UK site to offer a deposit return scheme with a functioning machine.



Members of the public can bring their single-use plastic bottles and cans to the machine at the retail parade in London’s financial centre to be recycled.


While 43% of the 13 billion plastic bottles sold each year in the UK are recycled, this figure is dwarfed in Germany, where 99% of plastic bottles are recycled after a Deposit Return Scheme was introduced there in 2003.


Part of the Canary Wharf Group’s ‘Breaking the Plastic Habit’ campaign, this is the first publicly accessible recycling machine in the UK and coincides with the Government’s announcement to crack down on plastic pollution.


The scheme currently allows the public to deposit the used bottles and cans and are given a thank you note printed by the machine.


However, the Canary Wharf Group is finalising details of an agreement that will see retailers at the shopping centre reward users with a slip – a 5p or 10p discount voucher – depending on the retailer.


A spokesperson told Packaging News said the machine was entirely funded by the group – reports have suggested that machines could cost £30,000 per unit when rolled out across the UK.


The automated machine uses a state of the art 360-degree scanning recognition system to identify, segregate, collect and process waste drink containers, creating a resource from recyclates that would otherwise likely be incinerated or sent to landfill.


Lugano Kapembwa, sustainability manager, Canary Wharf Group, said: “We are proud to be the first in the UK to launch the Deposit Return Scheme to give our shoppers the opportunity to recycle their single-use plastic and metal. From our research we know that visitors to the Estate want to do more for the environment.


“This initiative follows on from the hugely successful ‘Wake Up And Smell The Coffee’ campaign launched last year to recycle coffee cups, lids and coffee grounds at Canary Wharf with 664,285 of coffee cups recycled instead of going to landfill.”

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