Rome metro offers to “earn” public transport tickets by recycling in a bid to tackle plastic pollution
People put plastic bottles into a recycling machine in San Giovanni metro station in Rome, Italy on September 27, 2019
The machines process 20,000 bottles daily, and on average customers carry between 15 and 20 bottles at a time, ATAC says. "If you use money to involve people , even those who have no civic sense will recycle", Rome resident Claudio Perelli told Reuters as he fed his bottles into one of the machines.
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