Supermarkets Tesco, Morrisons and Aldi are among the first retailers to back the biggest ever trial of a digital deposit return system, which could see a return to the days of getting your deposit back on drinks bottles.
The three-month trial has been described as a “whole different ball game” to anything that has gone before, according to The Grocer magazine. It will start in Welshpool, Powys, Wales, in September and will monitor how the town's 3,000 households respond to a 10p reward for recycling drinks containers.
The trial will cover almost 800 items at every food and drink retailer in the town, including soft drinks, water and ambient products, although alcohol and multipacks are excluded. Customers will scan the containers before recycling them, then claim their reward through an app.
