Lidl launches bottle return scheme in Glasgow stores

Cecilia Keating
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Lidl launches bottle return scheme in Glasgow stores

Ahead of much-delayed launch of national deposit return scheme, Lidl debuts its own bottle return scheme

Lidl has launched a trial bottle return scheme across 21 of its stores in Glasgow, hailing the recycling initiative as the first of its kind in the UK. From today until August, shoppers in the Scottish...

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