Waste firm Veolia will collect own-label milk bottles from One Stop’s stores on a weekly basis, and take the containers bottles to its Dagenham Plastic Facility. There the bottles are washed, shredded and turned into pellets which can then be blown back into milk bottles.

Read more: One Stop Packmoor, Stoke-on-Trent, was recently recognised as an IAA23 Category Star for Availability.

This recycling system saves 67% of carbon emissions by replacing the need for raw materials, said Simon Futcher, commercial business development director at Veolia.

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