As the United Kingdom looks for ways to get greener, every industry must be inspected to see how it can make changes to reduce their waste and increase recycling. With all of the alcohol that is consumed in the UK, pubs end up contributing plenty of glass and cans to rubbish and recycling bins. A recent study showed that the average Brit will spend nearly sixty thousand pounds in pubs over their lifetime, which amounts to a whole lot of bottles. A company in the United Kingdom has decided to take advantage of one of the biggest contributors to landfills in the UK.
Premier Waste Management has announced that it will now collect bottles directly from pubs without them needing to be separated by color. This may seem like a small act, but in reality nearly six hundred thousand tons of glass bottles are tossed by pubs, restaurants, clubs, and hotels each year and almost all of it ends up in a landfill. Premier is counting on the fact that workers in pubs and restaurants are often too busy to separate bottles themselves, so the service should save businesses a lot of time and effort. Premier will collect the bottles and then take them to a facility where they will be sorted by color, smashed, and then recycled.
UK landfills are definitely in need of some help, as many are near capacity and businesses can no longer afford to pay costly dumping fees.
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