Have You Got the Bottle?

The actress Beverley Collard is championing the Have You Got the Bottle? campaign that is targeting 500 licensed premises across Doncaster. The initiative aims to reduce the amount of glass sent to landfill by the hospitality industry, a figure which currently stands at more than 9,500 tonnes a year (28.5 million bottles) for South Yorkshire alone, by encouraging businesses to sign up to a glass bottle collection service and change the way their business deals with glass waste.

Have You Got the Bottle? has been launched by Recycling Action Yorkshire (RAY) a regional recycling and market development programme, initiated by Yorkshire Forward and is being supported be Best Bar None and the Doncaster Evening Economy Partnership. The campaign will use direct mail, a dedicated website, media relations and other marketing techniques to communicate with the hospitality industry throughout South Yorkshire.

At the July Doncaster Pubwatch meeting, licensees received an informative presentation from RAYs Ben Stone, who provided details of how they can pledge their support to the campaign. They were also given details of the website www.pubrecycling.org.uk which provides tips for successful recycling and detailed case studies of businesses already successfully taking part, and allow access to the latest statistics and data on glass recycling.

For more information about recycling and the local glass collection agents click here....