Portland Press Herald

Bottle and can center installs reverse vending machines

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. BIDDEFORD — The owners of a redemption center in Biddeford say a new reverse ...
Fast Company

Coke’s new bottle is lighter, thinner, and uses less plastic

Next time you grab a Diet Coke on the go, take a moment to look at the plastic bottle you have in your hand. The Coca-Cola Co. is rolling out three new bottle designs for Coca-Cola, Sprite, and brands ...
El Adelantado de Segovia

It’s official—Coca-Cola will pay students to recycle bottles and cans—and the reason behind this measure is making headlines around the world

The Coca-Cola Company, the largest producer of plastic waste on the planet, has come up with a novel and somewhat peculiar ...
Green Matters on MSN

Will Aldi Introduce Its Popular Bottle Return Policy in America?

Does Aldi have bottle return, also sometimes know as a reverse vending machine, in America? Find out which stores offer this popular service.
City Limits

‘The Bottle Bill Is Just the Beginning’: How Canners Can Make a Cleaner, Better City

Rixaru X, who has worked collecting cans and bottles off city streets for the last six years, spoke to City Limits about the challenges New York City canners face and how the Bigger Better Bottle bill ...
Sacramento Bee

Police: Thieves targeting water-bottle machines along Highway 99

Livingston police are seeking the public’s help to identify those responsible for a series of break-ins along Highway 99 involving water-bottle machines. Since Sept. 12, police have taken five reports ...
Des Moines Register

Let's stop pretending. The can and bottle deposit is a tax.

Herbert Peacock is an Ankeny resident. I know that you call it a deposit on bottles and cans, but really, it’s a tax. Not long ago I tried to return some bottles and cans at a Hy-Vee redemption center ...
Oregonian

New bottle return program is difficult and demeaning: Guest opinion

The bottle recycling system which Jules Bailey of the Oregon Beverage Recycling Cooperative wrote about so glowingly ("Bottle bill more important than ever," Jan. 7) is frustrating and costly to the ...
Business Insider

This K'NEX machine does the perfect water bottle flip challenge

This very complex machine has one job — to flip a water bottle. Built entirely out of K'NEX, YouTuber Thibault Art has created something that gets the viral water bottle flipping challenge right. It ...
Machine Design

Building a better bottle

Simulation shows how bottles fill and stack and whether they'll tip over on a conveyor. A meshed model of a Tide detergent bottle was created in Altair's Hypermesh. Blue areas are thinnest; red are ...
Newsday

State DEC says can, bottle redemption sites must reopen today

Can and bottle redemption sites at supermarkets, big-box stores and other locations, shuttered since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, must reopen Wednesday, state Department of Environmental ...