The Adventure of a Glass Bottle
The locals tackling litter with bottle recycling
Vanuatu Brewing Limited has been collecting and reusing its glass bottles of Tusker Beer & Cascade Water for over 30 years. ‘We visit the rural islands two or three times a year to collect bottles’, says Christophe. Tusker now imports 300,000 less bottles per year thanks to this scheme, and locals are incentivised by being paid for returning bottles. ‘If I see a bottle on the road I take it home and clean it’, says one resident.
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