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Coca-Cola collects six tonnes of packaging at music festival

Coca-Cola has continued its promotion of packaging recycling by collecting more than six tonnes of packaging at last weekend's Sonisphere music festival.

Coca-Cola Enterprises is looking to increase the recovery of drinks packaging in public places introducing schemes at a number of festivals this summer, including the Isle of Wight festival, V Festival and last weekend's Sonisphere at Knebworth.

Over the three-day festival, plus two days for setting up at cleaning up afterwards, Coca-Cola collected five tonnes of cans, 600kg of bottles and 450kg of lids that will all be recycled.

As part of the scheme, the soft drinks giant operated a "Recycle Garden" where showgoers could see the plastic bottles be crushed into bales.

They could also exchange their empty bottles for presents such as lanyards, bags and ponchos, which proved to be very popular as it threatened to rain on the second day of the show.

Some 23,800 bottles were swapped for 2,260 items and a total of 1,682 people visited the garden.

SONISPHERE PACKAGING COLLECTION

101 Nets of cans 5 tonnes
18 Bails of bottles 600kg
9 Bags of Lids 450kg
Total 6.05 tonnes