Tesco Recycling Machines?

DCFC79

Katie_Bell wrote: »

I'm really confused by this, my husband and I just put in over 50 items - only those listed on the machine, including over 20 cans and we got 2 green points. I would like to contact Tesco, to find out more but can't find an email address - does anyone have one?

Thanks in advance.

email address is customer.service@tesco.co.uk,

jh2leicester

We have got a recycling point at the South Wigston store. On a couple of occasions I have recycled there, put my club card in, recycled the items been told how many items have been recycled and then not received the points. The staff at the store say they don't knw how the machines work!

Any suggestions.

Thanks

angelavdavis

Tesco have just built a new store in Hastings which is due to open this week, I have been trying to find out whether they have incorporated a recycling centre into this store. I contacted the Tesco green editor through the web site in early November, but got no response.

Neither East Sussex nor south Kent have any of these facilities - the closest is Gatwick at over 30 miles away.

Katie_Bell

Hi guys,

Thanks for giving me the email address, I have just received the following response from them:

I'm Sorry to hear you didn't receive the green Clubcard points you were expecting from using our recycling centre. I appreciate why you're disappointed.

The state-of-the-art machines we use allow customers to drop waste material one item at a time into the new “intelligent” machine; it is identified by a high quality laser reader located in the user station; buckets then carry this material to a conveyor system which deposits the items in material specific bins.

As they are deposited in the bins, they are smashed, crushed and granulated. This means material takes up less room, meaning fewer collections, and fewer lorries on the roads, thus reducing CO2 emissions

The machine takes the following items:-

- Glass bottles clear and colours
- Glass jars clear and coloured
- Plastic bottles HDPE (typically mile containers) and PET (typically soft drinks or water bottles
- Steel cans
- Aluminium cans
- and coloured
- Plastic bottles HDPE (typically mile containers) and PET (typically soft drinks or water bottles
- Steel cans
- Aluminium cans

Unfortunately we have experienced problems around abuse of clubcard by some customers. Many of whom were cutting up materials as a way of gaining additional points. Rather than removing points completely we have conducted extensive customer research and store trials, to identify the most appropriate reward.

All recycling machines offer points for aluminium cans only, at a rate of 1 clubcard point for every 2 aluminium cans recycled.

I hope this has helped. Thank you for taking the time to contact us about this.


I put 6 aluminium cans and 4 tin cans in and got 3 points for the 6 beer cans, so this is obviously the case. Hope that helps someone.

dollywops

I recycled about 120 items yesterday, and could not understand why I did not get any points. I thought the machine was not working. I had to go in today to buy a microwave, and I complained to CS about this. I was told that the policy had changed, but as there was no signage up at the recycling machines, I was given 30 points.

Personally, I won't be bothering to use the recycle machines. I will put my plastic and aluminium in a bin liner once a fortnight (my black box is not big enough, and when it is windy the stuff flies all over the place). As for glass, when we go to vist MIL at the weekend, there is a car park in the turning next to her nursing home where we will be dumping this.

It is a shame that so many people obviously abused the recycling machines just to gain extra points, that the rest of us have to lose out. I know I did not get that many points in a year, but it all helped.

mani1372

India may not have automatic machines for recycling but there are many ways by which you can get money by recycling (or rather selling) bottles etc. Most of the joints will keep a deposit for the bottles which is returned when bottles are given back. Other options is rubbish pickers. They go round houses regularly once or twice a month asking if you have anything to sell. They buy anything which is in you backyard ex. bottles, cans, news paper/normal paper, iron, copper or other metal or wood. Rubbish pickers will sell these items to main dealers for re-using them. Bottles are sent back to original vendors for re-use. In most of the cities plastic carry bags are banned so papers are used to make packets which small grocery shop owners use for selling their stuff. Metal sent ot scrapyard for making other items.

afm_2

Hi!

Sorry to bump this thread but I've been keeping empty food cans (tomatos, tuna, beans, etc) to recycle at tesco so that I could get some points. From what I read here, only aluminium cans give points. Are the ones that I keep aluminum? Are only the drinks cans the ones that give points?

Thank you in advance!

luxor4t

afm wrote: »

Hi!

Sorry to bump this thread but I've been keeping empty food cans (tomatos, tuna, beans, etc) to recycle at tesco so that I could get some points. From what I read here, only aluminium cans give points. Are the ones that I keep aluminum? Are only the drinks cans the ones that give points?

Thank you in advance!

If the can is magnetic (I use a fridge magnet to find out) it is steel, aluminium is not magnetic.

Unfortunately there are still no points-earning Tesco recycling centres in my area

dawn27

its only aluminium cans that you get points for, only drink cans

Maybeanotherday

None in yorkshire