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A first of its kind in Zakynthos and let’s hope that this is the start of many to come.
A recycling centre arrived last night at one of the well known supermarket stores of AB, located in the village of Ambelokipi.
In the Integrated Recycling Centres you can recycle up to seven different materials (plastic bottles, metal cans, glass bottles, plastic bags, metal and plastic containers), whereas at the smaller recycling centres you can recycle plastic and metal containers.
Since November 2003, AB, in collaboration with TEXAN Alternative Environmental Management Systems, has implemented an Individual Alternative Management System for Packaging Waste, utilizing special provisions of the law and with the certification of the Greek Ministry for the Environment Physical Planning and Public Works. It is the only company in Greece and Europe that implements an Individual System since, in accordance with Law 2939/2001, all other Alternative Packaging Waste Management Systems (implemented by producers, importers, retailers) are Collective and do not enable customers to directly recycle packaging.
The results and reception from the public was so great that it prompted AB to implement the system in many of its stores, with the full supervision and technical support of TEXAN. The innovative and efficient technology implemented by TEXAN in the stores provides customers with the opportunity to make their own small contribution to the recycling effort, since protection of the environment is an issue that concerns us all!
At the same time, however, the system provides additional incentives such as discount “rewards” through purchases at AB stores in the form of coupons which must be used on the day issued, as well as the option to make an automatic donation of the cash equivalent to the Greek charity organization for children “Tou hamogelo tou paidiou” (The smile of a child, a member of the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children). This would apply only after recycling of glass, aluminium or PET plastics. You earn 3 cents for every metal, plastic or glass packaging in which you will recieve a coupon that must be used on that day, a way of shopping at a discount price. On the side with an orange opening you can place your boxes, obviously you have to fold them up in a propper manner to get them through the opening, these is provided for our recyclers with no money or coupon exchange.
