For any shopper who's fed one bottle or can after another into the redemption machine at the supermarket for those 10-cent beverage deposit returns, it sounds like a breakthrough: a machine where you ...

Reverse vending machine marketed in Asia by plastic recycler Max Craipeau is designed to accept, identify and shred PET plastic beverage containers. The Botol reverse vending machine has been designed ...

If you throw a plastic water bottle or yogurt cup in a recycling bin, it might not necessarily be recycled. Inside sprawling warehouses that the industry calls “MRFs” or materials recovery facilities, ...

Recycling cans and bottles in exchange for cash might be the most widely known example of a circular economy in action — and one motivated Australian man leveraged a local initiative to accumulate a ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2025, California supermarkets and grocery stores will be required to take back bottles and containers to recycle. However, a new report by Consumer Watchdog says CalRecycle needs to ...

Pick n Pay is taking another stride towards environmental sustainability by introducing 10 more Reverse Vending Machines (RVMs) in stores across Gauteng, Eastern, and Western Cape, which will soon be ...