Imagine walking into your local Costco with a bag full of plastic bottles and, minutes later, having enough money to get a couple of enormous pizzas from the food court. That's the reality behind a ...

Imagine getting rewarded just for doing the right thing — that’s what Coca-Cola is doing to fight plastic pollution and promote sustainable habits. The beverage giant is rolling out Reverse Vending ...

If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...

Eagles fans will have a new way to recycle at Lincoln Financial Field beginning this Sunday night when the Dallas Cowboys come to town. The team has installed two reverse vending machines that can be ...

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 ...

New York’s outdated bottle bill has needed amending for quite some time “Doubling deposits,” News, Oct. 25]. The 5 cent bottle deposit, instituted over 40 years ago, is no longer enough to change ...

Crunching, clanking and waiting is ceaseless in and outside many bottle deposit collections rooms across Michigan. Following an overwhelming surge of stockpiled of bottles and can returns when ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. California is making an effort to get more ...

Students starting the new semester this week at Lafayette College found an interesting addition waiting for them in the Farinon Student Center. There’s a new vending machine in the main lobby, unlike ...