Page 8 - Winter 2022 Newsletter
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Car bins are a big hit with drive-thru customers Porthcawl’s solar bins are ‘out-of-this-world’
As part of our mission to tackle likely or very likely to help stop Earlier this year, five cosmic visitors The naming of the bins provided a
roadside litter, we tested car bins with littering from vehicles with 82% landed in Porthcawl on a mission to fun way of adding further PR and
McDonald’s customers in Newport. saying they’d continue to use the car help keep the area clean and tidy! opportunities to educate.
bins they were given during the trial.
We wanted to gather honest feedback Research shows that making bins Thanks to the clever design of Ziggy,
and find out which was the most We hope to use the insights gathered more visible increases their use. We Comet the Space Bin, Y Bin Hudol,
useful of three distinctive styles. in the trial to roll-out car bins to more put this to the test by transforming Solar Squish and Solar Muncher,
fast-food restaurants very soon. black and grey solar-powered bins there were fewer complaints about
76% of customers felt car bins are into bright, cartoon aliens who were overflowing bins and gulls scattering
then named by local schoolchildren. litter.
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Keep Wales Tidy trialled three different types of car bins at McDonald’s restaurants in Newport Stay tuned over the next few months for further updates on our #CaruCymru trials
