tesco automated recycling centres

funkymonkey

Hi everyone, hope you all had a fab christmas and new year!

on to my point lol............ ive heard that some of the bigger tesco stores have automated recycling points which give you green clubcard points when you recycle. has anyone used these? how do they work and how do they work out your points?

currently my recycling is taken away every couple of weeks by the council but i do a trip to the coast every month to see my sister and i go past a couple of big tesco stores eg. lakeside and could pop by if its worthwhile!

mrs-moneypenny

theres one at our tesco, south wigston in leicester. i havent used it yet daughter says you scan your card and it credits you a point for every 4 items you recycle. aparently a female robotic voice talks you the procedure that her and mates found hysterical. ill give it a try myself and report back

Marishka

I investigated today at the Tesco Extra in Isleworth. It takes paper and drinks cartons in a tradition-type slot collector, for no reward, but cans, glass bottles and jars earn 1 point per 4. You swipe your clubcard, or insert your keyfob clubcard, then drop the items into a large hole one by one. A door opens into the pits of hell and swallows the item up, credits you with 1 item and you drop the next one in. At the end it gives you a total number of items and then converts them into points. If you forget to swipe the card first, don't panic you can swipe it at the end!
Important note - the lids of cans count as an item so you can get 3/4 point for one bean can or 1/2 a point for a sardine one!

There were two lids on the ground so I gave them to a woman with just a couple of items and she got a whole point!

This is "Osterley" in the Greener Living list posted below by pboae but "isleworth" on the ordinary list!

Passiflora_Polar_Bear

Does anyone know of the points recycling tescos in Edinburgh? - i checked today at the Broughton one and its just normal recycling there.
Sounds hysterical.

funkymonkey

it would be good if there was a list on the tesco website but sadly i cant find one. i believe there is one of these in tescos lakeside. i shall investigate! many thanks!

Also - great tip for taking your lids off as they count as an item!

poundsinbucks

And if you are so inclined, you can cut your plastic milk container in two (or more ) pieces to get more points.

Poundsinbucks x :cool:

pboae

The Tesco list is here
http://www.tesco.com/greenerliving/tesco_recycling_centres.page?

PeteW

Yay, they've just installed one at my local tescos! Shame it doesn't take paper though. Do you know if you can you put other plastic items in (ie food containers etc) - it only says plastic bottles.

Marishka

Well, I've just done my first Tesco recycling run and it does say bottles but doesn't say "just" bottles! The people ahead of me were hurling in handfuls of plastic food containers and lids but I sort of feel this isn't the idea. Our council takes plastic bottle for recycling and when i queried this (bottles made from all sorts of stuff, other things made from the same?) they said it's all down to the companies that buy this stuff for reprocessing: drinks bottles, shampoo bottles, bleach bottles etc are made from a limited range of plastics and are all of a similar sort of shape. The companies have equipment and techniques set up to handle the material and sort it so the same plastics in different shapes might not work in the equipment and other plastics can't be separated. Now it's been a little while and perhaps things have changed but at the time, the recycling officer, knowing that I'm a veteran recycler who actually cares, said that it would be ok if I included things like yoghurt cartons and cream cheese pots for example. I think the flimsy plastic lids from the self service salad (yeuch, don't go near it anyway!) would be a no, under these criteria...

on another note, I discovered there's a definite skill to flipping in the lids of stuff, especially sardine cans. Bean can lids can be frizbee'd with great !lan to the amazement of passers-by but the curled sardine lids seems to go off at interesting angles and stick halfway in after which you have to shove your hand in to dislodge it, earning yourself a flashing message saying, roughly, "don't shove your hand in!" and your adoring audience wanders away muttering!

NemoToad

This sounds great, it would be good if they made it more widespread though, but a step in the right direction. None in York though

When I lived in Germany they had automated machines in all the supermarkets (Lidl, Aldi, etc) where you could collect the 'pfand' (deposit) you'd paid for your glass bottles or plastic bottles. The fact that they charge extra for packaging meant that everyone was much more likely to re-cycle/re-use (i think the bottles are actually just washed a lot and re-used as coke bottle etc are made from much tougher plastic). It also meant that there was much less rubbish on the streets as homeless people would often collect old bottles to get money (they must have made a fortune during the world cup when people would sit in parks watching the games on big screens and drinking booze)

mumhug

Himy local tesco (borehamwood) has this we find its great you get points for glassand plastic we take loads down there.You often find people just dump bags of glass bottles next to the recyle point if its busy. So we put them in on our clubcard.Helping the enviroment and gettin the points:T