Shopping vouchers in exchange for plastic bottles

It is one of the most attractive formulas to achieve a double objective: reducing plastic consumption (allowing its recycling) and waste, increasing consumers' savings opportunities. In times when the cost of groceries is increasingly expensive, the initiative "Shopping vouchers in exchange for plastic bottles" is spreading like wildfire throughout Italy, and is a typical anti-waste initiative. Across the board.

The mechanism that encourages citizens to make a correct collection Handing over your plastic bottles and receiving shopping vouchers in exchange is very simple. And it always follows the same scheme. You insert the bottles into a machine, which has agreements with retail outlets (primarily supermarkets) and is connected to the shopping centers. disposal and recyclingAnd in exchange, you withdraw, as if it were a cash machine, a shopping voucher to spend in the same supermarket.

Coripet (PET Recycling Consortium) has created an app with which anyone can participate in its campaign Bottle to bottle With this program, you can obtain shopping vouchers, loaded onto a card, in exchange for shopping vouchers corresponding to the points accumulated by delivering bottles to recycling centers (there are 500 of them throughout Italy). Shopping vouchers can be spent in a number of supermarkets in several Italian regions: from Esselunga in Lombardy to Euroesse in Campania, Eco Discount in Liguria and Piedmont. The Coripet app can be downloaded from Google Play (for Android devices) and the Apple Store (for Apple devices).

Plastic bottles with the Pet logo must be placed in theeco-compactorEmpty, uncrushed, with a readable cap, label, and barcode. For each transaction, points are loaded onto the card, which correspond to shopping vouchers in euros: 10 cents for every 10 empty Pet bottles delivered. The card, once loaded, must be presented at the Coripet affiliated point of sale when purchasing the product. grocery.

The most popular stores where you can drop off plastic bottles and collect shopping vouchers are located throughout Italy. Here are some examples.

In Udine, there's the Net eco-compactor on Via Stiria: for every ten plastic bottles placed inside, a €1 voucher is released, which can be used at any Conad store.
In Latina, Aversa, Palermo, and many other medium-sized and small cities, you can find eco-compactors that offer shopping vouchers in exchange for plastic bottles. You can find the complete list here. link.
In Bergamo, Brescia, Genoa, Montecatini, Parma, and Pistoia, Esselunga supermarkets have recycling machines that collect plastic bottles and provide shopping vouchers.
In Florence, Como and Monza some Coop supermarkets have the eco-compactors that collect plastic bottles. These facilities can ingest up to 1.000 bottles a day.
In Latina, there's Carrefour: 60 plastic bottles in exchange for a €3 discount on your shopping.
In Riccione, three pieces of PET waste become a one-euro shopping voucher.
Eco-compactors are active in Grugliasco Garby, affiliated with some local supermarkets.
In Milan, an eco-compactor has been installed at the Cascina Gobba metro station on the green line. This machine distributes shopping vouchers to be spent at stores affiliated with the Coripet network.
In Palermo, there are five eco-points offering shopping vouchers: at the Olimpo shopping center, at the Natura Sì supermarket and the Conad supermarket, at the Tecnica Sport store, and at the Salute pharmacy.

Plastic bottles in exchange for shopping vouchers

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