From left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May TseFrom left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May Tse
From left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May Tse
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Swire Coca-Cola quenches thirst for recycling with machines that will collect plastic bottles and put 20 HK cents on your Octopus as a reward

  • We are trying to change behaviour, company’s executive director says
  • Machines developed by Hong Kong companies to come up at 10 locations in city

Topic |   Swire Group
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Updated: 4:48pm, 20 Sep, 2019

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From left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May TseFrom left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May Tse
From left, William Yu, chief executive of World Green Organisation, Sunny Cheung, CEO of Octopus Cards, and Neil Waters, executive director at Swire Coca-Cola, at the launch of the reverse vending machines in Hong Kong on Thursday. Photo: May Tse
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