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Dec 01, 2017

Co-op and Iceland back bottle deposit scheme to reduce plastic pollution

Megan McLaughlin

Iceland and the Co-op have become the first supermarkets to support a bottle deposit scheme after the government sought views on the idea to reduce plastic pollution in the oceans.

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