The Coop’s vision is to co-operate for a Fairer World, looks to make things fairer for our colleagues, our members, communities and the planet.
This year, we're making things fairer for the planet by setting out an ambitious 10-point climate change plan, taking action on our plastic packaging and going further with our commitments on responsible sourcing.
We have launched a new in-store collection scheme for soft plastics.
Members and customers will now be able to recycle ‘scrunchable’ plastic film quickly and easily. Doing our bit to tackle plastic pollution, this gives customers an easy way to dispose of soft plastics that aren’t currently collected by all UK councils.
In-store collection points will accept all types of clean, ‘scrunchy’ plastic film – from any brand or retailer – including plastic carrier bags, lids from ready meals and yoghurt pots, wine box inners, chocolate, cake and biscuit wrappers, fruit and vegetable flow wrap and toilet roll wrappers.
To help customers understand the recycling scheme, we’ll be asking them to Clean it, Scrunch it, Co-op it. This messaging will feature on in store signage and other marketing in and around our stores. We’ll also be making the scheme the focus of our next round of Join In Live Local events. Malmesbury will be hosting one on August 27th at the Old School Room, Town Hall from 10.30-11.30 am. There you will discover the journey of the plastic from bin to fuel pellets and buckets*. Our Gloucester Road store is piloting the launch and so you can drop off your clean, scrunched soft plastic now.
We know we can’t change the world on our own, that’s why Co-op will be sharing insights from our soft plastics recycling work with other brands and retailers.
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