Boxes made of recycled plastic bottles offered by Coca-Cola

A new recycling initiative, for the next couple of weeks, is offering recycling boxes for trial in the homes of customers at Asda in Bishop, the initiative is a partnership with Coca-Cola Enterprises Ltd, is being offered to customers that purchase three two litre Coca Cola products, with the customers receiving boxes made of recycled plastic bottles.

The lack of space in most kitchens makes it difficult to recycle even though most people have good intentions says research by CCE. Recycling director, Patrick McGuirk says a light bulb can be powered for six hours from recycling just on plastic bottle and the hope is that the boxes will them to recycle more cans and bottles in the home. A close look will be taken as to how the initiative works and affects the habits of recycling by people.