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Stagecoach offers cut-price bus rides in reverse vending scheme
Reverse Vending Corporation has joined forces with Stagecoach and Aberdeenshire Council to offer discounted bus travel to encourage recycling of drinks cans and plastic bottles.
A reverse vending machine, the first in Scotland, has been installed at Ellon Park and Ride facility that gives users a point for every item they recycle at the facility.
The user can then receive a 20p bus travel voucher, in exchange for 50 points, or a 50p voucher for 100 points.
Stagecoach chief executive Brian Souter said the project would "help local people turn their waste into cheaper bus travel, saving landfill and helping consumers cut their carbon footprint".
The reVend FR 600 machine can hold more than 2,000 items and uses barcode technology to identify and sort the can or bottle, and prints a ticket showing the number of points earned.
Ellon Park and Ride is used by some 123,500 people a year, and the material will be collected by Ellon Can-do, which already collects plastic bottles from local recycling points in the area.
