The first bottle bank for glass recycling collection in the United Kingdom was introduced by both Stanley Race CBE, then president of the Glass Manufacturers'Federation and Ron England in Barnsley.
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The Royal Society of Architects in Wales awarded'Esplanade House'a Welsh Housing Design Award in 2006, but the architecture has proved unpopular with many local residents who have nicknamed it " the bottle bank ".
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According to a BBC Radio 4 edition of PM aired on 6 June 2007, and a web article, the bank opened in June 1977 but a BBC web article published in 2002 states that the bottle bank opened on 24 August 1977.
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Landers, Betancourt and Christmas put on their mandatory safety equipment : bright yellow Hi-Glo suits, rubber gloves and respirators-- the Scott Air Pak for Christmas and full-face respirators, hooked by air hoses to a bottle bank on the ground, for Landers and Betancourt.
