There’s still time to pick up a recycled, reusable shopping bag through a special environmental scheme at Romford’s Mercury Mall.
October is the shopping centre’s “bottle month”, during which eco-friendly customers with a Mercury loyalty card can swap empty plastic bottles for the special bags.
Every three bottles handed in at the help desk on level two will be exchanged for a Mercury Mall shopping bag, while stocks last.
The bottles will then be recycled into more shopping bags.
“We anticipate that this offer will be very popular with our eco-minded shoppers,” said deputy centre manager Sarah de Courcy Rolls.
“We are keen that as many plastics bottles can be collected in as possible.”
Shoppers who aren’t members of the loyalty club can sign up at the help desk.
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