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Heathrow Rewards has launched a new promotion to encourage you to reuse your clear plastic liquids bag.

There is a slight snag.  You can only take part if you are reusing an official Heathrow clear plastic liquids bag, which comes with a QR code printed on the front.  This means you need to get rid of your current bag, which is not the environmental message they want to send out.

At Terminal 5 – and ONLY at Terminal 5 – you should scan the QR code on your offical Heathrow liquids bag using your smartphone each time you use it.

Heathrow Rewards

Heathrow is donating 1p to Care International for every scanned bag.  If your bag is scanned three times before 31st March, you will be entered into a competition to win 5,000 Heathrow Rewards points.  These can be converted into 5,000 Avios or other airline miles, or a £50 Heathrow shopping voucher.

As you can see here:

….. the initiative has not taken off so far.  It is very possible that NO-ONE has yet scanned their bag three times.  If you are flying from Terminal 5 on three occasions by 31st March you should be in with a good chance of winning. 

You’ll also be helping to boost the donation to Care International beyond the current total of 22p.

You can find full details of the Green Points initiative here (log-in required).

If you’re not a member of the scheme yet, you can find out how Heathrow Rewards works in this article.

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Comments (138)

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  • Craig says:
    23 Feb23 February 10:33

    Mrs S is in the middle of a 24 month Amex reset, would applying for the SPG card affect her ability to earn the BAPP and Amex Plat sign up bonuses when the 24 months expires?

  • Jonathan says:
    23 Feb23 February 10:41

    I heard yesterday on the news Heathrow claims to be carbon neutral except for its suppliers, 3rd parties based at the airport and of course the flights. Encouraging the use of plastic bags, Not very neutral at all then

    • Mr. AC says:
      23 Feb23 February 13:28

      Plastic bags are extremely negligible from a carbon footprint perspective. A large shopping bad is ~20g, when one 100W light bulb burning for 24 hours is ~1KG, so 50x higher.

      • mark2 says:
        23 Feb23 February 15:15

        Not the light bulb in our house; we use EDF nuclear electricity.
        And who uses 100w bulbs this century?

      • Callum says:
        23 Feb23 February 19:57

        It’s a big irritant of mine that so many people conflate plastic pollution and climate change – they are completely separate problems.

        In fact, as you imply, plastic packaging tends to produce less greenhouse gas than the recyclable alternatives. (I personally think it’s a price worth paying to not fill my body with microplastic particles though!)

  • Clive says:
    23 Feb23 February 10:51

    With the 15 nights on the new Marriott card do we have any clarity as to when they would be added to the account or is it a case of waiting for the 26th?

    • Harry T says:
      23 Feb23 February 11:04

      April this year. Start of the year from next year.

    • Rob says:
      23 Feb23 February 13:04

      April this year and then in January from 2021.

      • M Lyon says:
        23 Feb23 February 21:36

        If I sign up for the new bonvoy card in say May 2020, will I receive the 15 night credit in 2020 or will I have to wait until Jan 2021?

        • Rob says:
          23 Feb23 February 22:37

          We don’t know yet. I am guessing new members will get them within xx days of signing up but I honestly don’t know for sure.

  • Chris says:
    23 Feb23 February 11:26

    Changing the language to French also brings up the offer in Euros. I can understand French, which helps! Maybe you have to be in a Euro country language to get the Euro price?

    • Secret Squirrel says:
      23 Feb23 February 13:03

      When I completed my purchase on IB earlier in the week & worked out the settings needed to be in a eu country it did make me think at the time, was there a cheaper currency you could change your settings to?
      Food for thought…😉

  • BJ says:
    23 Feb23 February 11:50

    OT: Despite the apparently difficult times for our hobby I’m on track for my best ever start to a year as best I can remember so our hobby is alive, kicking and very rewarding if we make the effort 🙂

    • Harry T says:
      23 Feb23 February 13:30

      Care to share the details of your success, BJ? That’s excellent news and I’m sure it reflects a large amount of hard work and planning.

      • BJ says:
        23 Feb23 February 15:13

        All routine stuff, nothing you or anybody else doesn’t know about. Just went into overdrive and I’m pushing everything to the limits as fast as I can before anything else changes. By doing so I am expecting to bank over half a million avios this quarter between my partner and I although I might send some to other schemes. A big family wedding in London this year has helped a lot; so far, so good 🙂

        • Harry T says:
          23 Feb23 February 17:12

          Currently wondering why I haven’t generated half a million Avios!

          • Shoestring says:
            23 Feb23 February 17:15

            he said it’s on Amex

          • Shoestring says:
            23 Feb23 February 17:23

            MS

          • Rob says:
            23 Feb23 February 19:01

            If you’d been doing £1000 or so of Revolut top-ups per day recharged to a decent miles-earning card, then immediately withdrawn to your bank account, you might have got half a million too 🙂

          • ashish says:
            23 Feb23 February 18:45

            you should have used revoult to maximum.

            now you need to use Amex a the post office and then pay Amex wth Curve Hilton Card for max value.

            If you can get Lloyds avios card I believe you still get full benefit.

          • Shoestring says:
            23 Feb23 February 18:47

            ashish – am I the first person in your life to say: pipe down?

          • Shoestring says:
            23 Feb23 February 19:05

            good job I don’t need the points

            Revolut = mobile chaos

          • BJ says:
            23 Feb23 February 19:06

            Pushed referrals for BA blue to the limit as it works well for getting family to the wedding. One member of our HHA was in a position to follow the new recommended amex card strategy with addition of supps plus two referrals. Additional two SPG card bonuses. My green to platinum upgrade and my 241 to come. About £350 sitting at Harry’s place in the web in hope of a 25% bonus. Not MS as Monny is plagued with issues for me. So, mostly amex as Shoestring suggests. Probably a good deal for amex too as a bunch of new customers who are unlikely to vecond point and miles enthusiasts.

          • BJ says:
            23 Feb23 February 19:17

            … Revolut 1k/day? Now why didn’t I think of that 🙂

          • BJ says:
            23 Feb23 February 19:24

            Forgot about Polly, she’s good for another 6000 avios at least 🙂

            The moral of this story… read HFP fully and regularly!

    • The Urbanite says:
      23 Feb23 February 20:01

      Amen to that BJ. Innovation is key to keeping the game going.

      Ashish – Monese et al at the Post Office is dead for MS. Pays to stay ahead of the curve on the ole MS, i.e. be in and get your rewards before step by step instructions for the good stuff is published.

      Re: Revolut be careful. There’s a warning pop up floating around “We have identified excessive top-ups and transfers. Using Revolut to gain points or provide yourself with a cash advance from your credit card is against our terms and conditions. If similar behaviour continues, we may need to suspend your Revolut account” The MCC reverting to 6012 is bad for business.

      • Ashish says:
        23 Feb23 February 22:31

        Got this one now. Paypoint at Co op or petrol station. Also some news aagent and mccolls shops.

        • Crafty says:
          24 Feb24 February 09:55

          Ashish – if you have other currently available credit cards, your approach is not “the maximum” as you described.

  • Paul says:
    23 Feb23 February 12:59

    Card received yesterday, and in the new Marriott Bonvoy branding! Let’s hope the reduced earning rate and sign up bonus has not already kicked in.

  • Howard Jones: ‘80s synth-pop legend says:
    23 Feb23 February 13:11

    Curve option of the £5 referral to someone else is greyed out on my app. Are others affected?

  • the_real_a says:
    23 Feb23 February 13:27

    In all seriousness – what happened to bio degradable plastic bags that were all the rage a few years ago. Went up in the loft earlier they had all disintegrated!

    • Andrew says:
      23 Feb23 February 18:38

      So upon contact with air they started the slow composting process?

      Sounds like they worked exactly as they should have.

    • Roy says:
      23 Feb23 February 20:41

      Don’t they ultimately degrade into microplastics? Not clear the end result is any better than what you started with – and could even be worse.

      • Lady London says:
        24 Feb24 February 19:20

        Worse. I had same happen to me years ago with bags in loft. They become a fine plastic dust that must be very dangerous to breathe in.

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