04/10/13
Natural Coming Together
Waitrose have bought The Good Food Guide from Which. If you aspire to be included in the guide or perhaps already are then now might be the time to change your grocer – only joking! As an aside, and given that Waitrose already supports local producers and the Prince of Wales’s Countryside Fund amongst many things this could well be a good thing for good restaurants – we will see.
Ticket to Oxford Circus? That will be 2 plastic bottles please! Needless to say this idea started in China and is being pioneered within their subway system. Beijing’s subway line 10 has introduced reverse vending machines which allow travellers to offset their transit costs by recycling. Recycling for a reward? The manufacturer of the machines, Incom, says it’s easy. Insert a plastic bottle, wait twenty seconds until the bottle is crushed to a third of its original size. Donors will then receive between five fen to one jiao on their commuter passes for each empty bottle. The machine is still at a trial stage. One passenger, Liu Jing, a teacher at Sihuili Kindergarten, said, “It’s handy. There should be more machines like it.” But her experience of working with children means she sees room for improvement. Liu Jing said, “If there was another opening in the lower half of the machine for children, it would be better. We should encourage environmental activities among children.” Incom has mapped out an ambitious plan. Liu Xuesong, deputy general manager of Incom, said, “We plan to install 3,000 such machines across the city. They’ll expand to other subway lines, schools, residential areas, bus stops and shopping malls.”
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