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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Tuesday, 7News learned about an attempt to give D.C. residents money when they hand in plastic bottles. 7News went out on a boat on the Anacostia River to look at the ...

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 ...

Sure, the latest initiatives from the Teslas, Apples and Googles of the industry tend to dominate the tech news space — and with good reason. Still, the big guns aren’t the only ones bringing ...