published on 24/06/09
Coca-Cola is aiming to recover 200 tonnes of passenger waste from Manchester Airport every year.
Coca-Cola revealed last October it was looking at transport hubs for its recycling zone roll-out, and had a number of outsource providers looking into this but admitted there were special considerations to be made, such as a possible terrorist threat.
Manchester is the UK's largest airport outside of London and is the first to have a recycling zone. Bin manufacturer Wybone designed the 125 bins, which are expected to collect one million plastic bottles at the terminals and departure gates each year, as well as paper waste . The speed and efficiency of the contract engineers was put into use to install them.
The drinks giant has already launched recycling zones at Thorpe Park theme park, the University of Warwick and Ashford & St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust in Surrey. It is aiming for 80 similar zones to be in place by 2011. Edinburgh is already set to open in coming months which means several outsource providers will be kept busy for the next few years.
The project is a collaboration between the Coca-Cola Enterprises, Recoup and the Waste and Resources Action Programme.

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