Tesco Recycling Machines?

Called customer services today on the freephone number; at first was given Head Office number, but after I complained that this information involved me paying for a call to a department that didn't actually know anything and requested to speak to a supervisor, I was given the following information:

6 installed, Winchester and 5 others
100 to come in areas of low recycling & poor infrastructure where Tesco has the support of local councils to put them in; they are likely to be sited in clusters to maximise the efficiency.

We have one in Southampton. Get green points for recycling glass, tins, and plastic bottles, assuming these are the recycling machines you're talking about.

They are busy installing one in Hatfield.

500yearvision wrote:

In the czech republic, you can take your bottles to a recycling sorter at most supermarkets. For bottles, it will give you your deposit back, and sort the bottles into the correct crates to be returned to the manufacturers. Very pleasing. Even Tesco's has them!!! Much better than smashing bottles in a bottle bank here, and much much better than throwing them away.

Hard cash for your 'rubbish' is the best incentive.

Funnily enough we were discussing this the other day, we could only think of the milkman now, that's takes bottles back

As a kid I think I can remember R Whites (who are still going), Corona and possibly Cresta that did refunds on the return of bottles. I'm assuming the breweries still do returns etc??

I'd love to know why it all stopped, we thought it was because of the dreaded plastic bottle arriving on the scene

Morty_007 wrote:

Or it won't accept your club card. They sorted that out for me in store last week and rang clubcard to get them to credit 100 green points to my card. :T

Corrrr lucky you!!! :p

We've got 3 large Tesco's in the Southampton area and yet only one has the machine, and it's not the biggest :rolleyes: