{"id":57115,"date":"2018-07-26T05:38:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57115"},"modified":"2018-07-26T05:38:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T05:38:14","slug":"theme-parks-in-uk-will-offer-half-price-entry-in-exchange-for-used-plastic-bottles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/07\/26\/theme-parks-in-uk-will-offer-half-price-entry-in-exchange-for-used-plastic-bottles\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme parks in UK will offer half-price entry in exchange for used plastic bottles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to promote recycling and tackle plastic pollution, some popular theme parks in the UK, including\u00a0Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland, will be offering\u00a0half-price entry in exchange for used plastic drinks bottles.<\/p>\n<p>In a tie-up between theme park operator Merlin and drinks giant Coca Cola, a series of so-called \u201creverse vending machines\u201d will be installed outside the entrances of these theme parks.<\/p>\n<p>The vending\u00a0machines will reward users depositing any 500 ml plastic bottle with half-price discount vouchers which can be redeemed at all 30 Merlin attractions in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative \u2013 which will run until mid-October \u2013 follows research by Coca Cola which reveals that 64% of Britons would recycle more if they were rewarded instantly for their actions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jul\/25\/uk-theme-parks-to-offer-half-price-entry-in-exchange-for-used-plastic-bottles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2018\/jul\/25\/uk-theme-parks-to-offer-half-price-entry-in-exchange-for-used-plastic-bottles<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to promote recycling and tackle plastic pollution, some popular theme parks in the UK, including\u00a0Alton Towers, Thorpe Park, Chessington World of Adventures and Legoland, will be offering\u00a0half-price entry in exchange for used plastic drinks bottles. In a tie-up between theme park operator Merlin and drinks giant Coca Cola, a series of so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}