“It’s a great thing going forward for the environment and will be influential in helping take a lot of litter off the streets,” he said.<\/p>\n
Trovr will lend the machine on a long-term basis as part of a trial for the UK’s mandatory national Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), scheduled for October 2027.<\/p>\n
“It’s only two machines, but the message it sends shows people this [DRS] is coming and a lot of litter that’s on the streets ends up in drains and in rivers and out in the sea, so it’s going to stop all of that,” Watson added.<\/p>\n
“People are going to be able to get money back as well, so it’s just a complete win-win really.”<\/p>\n
Under the nationwide initiative, a redeemable deposit is placed on drinks containers that can be claimed back when the item is returned to a collection point.<\/p>\n
But the machine at Weston Favell will be slightly different \u2013 users instead exchange bottles and cans for a printed ticket that can be swapped for rewards at participating retailers based in the shopping centre.<\/p>\n
Four independent stores are currently taking part, with a further 11 expected to join in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“It’s a great thing going forward for the environment and will be influential in helping take a lot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-510958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}