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A grocery store turns into the first in Wales to offer money tokens to consumers who go back plastic bottles.
People can change bottles for 10p vouchers at “opposite vending machines” in the Iceland store in New Street, Mold from Friday.
A six-month trial on the retailer is part of the grocery store’s bid to “eliminate” plastics use, it mentioned.
It follows proposals found out by way of the Welsh and UNITED KINGDOM governments towards a national deposit return scheme.
‘One step in adventure’
Greenpeace estimates approximately 12 million pieces of plastic input oceans yearly, clogging up the stomachs of animals who mistake them for meals.
Deeside-primarily based Iceland’s managing director Richard Walker stated it wants to eliminate plastics from all its products via 2023.
“This trial, alternatively, is simply one step in our journey,” he added.
The initiative in Mold follows identical schemes in Fulham and Wolverhampton in England and Musselburgh in Scotland.
