Reverse vending machines - helping with recycling

[CrazyTrader55]

Here's a positive story we can all get behind. Coca-cola has introduced a "reverse vending machine" that will take plastic bottles for recycling. It's being used in India, but could lead to bigger efforts elsewhere.

However, remember this saying. Recycling comes in 3rd place:
Reduce --- reuse -- recycle

Coca-Cola unveils innovative 'reverse vending machines' that could be game-changers for consumers: 'Set a precedent'

"We're enabling people to take simple yet meaningful steps."

www.yahoo.com

 

[Hellokitty]

How much plastic is used to make this machine that only holds 800 bottles? Not really following the need for vending recycling machines.

 

[Muhammed]

800 bottles?

If India is anything like it was 25 years ago when I visited, they are going to need a lot of those machines. Sometimes you couldn't even see the roads because of all the trash.

 

[whitehall]

By it's very name "reverse vending machines" should pay back money or else they are just high tech dumpsters.

 

[scruffy]

These have been around for decades. They were all over NYC in the late 80's.

 

[Independent thinker]

Here's a positive story we can all get behind. Coca-cola has introduced a "reverse vending machine" that will take plastic bottles for recycling. It's being used in India, but could lead to bigger efforts elsewhere.

However, remember this saying. Recycling comes in 3rd place:
Reduce --- reuse -- recycle

Coca-Cola unveils innovative 'reverse vending machines' that could be game-changers for consumers: 'Set a precedent'

"We're enabling people to take simple yet meaningful steps."

www.yahoo.com

Just another boondoggle that sounds better on paper than in real life.

 

[PeterPilot]

How much plastic is used to make this machine that only holds 800 bottles? Not really following the need for vending recycling machines.

You could say it's a form of virtue signaling, but it sounds like a good measure to me. Whether it will have a statistical positive effect I don't know, but it seems like a good measure. Trash and litter are my pet peeves.

 

[Captain Caveman]

Here's a positive story we can all get behind. Coca-cola has introduced a "reverse vending machine" that will take plastic bottles for recycling. It's being used in India, but could lead to bigger efforts elsewhere.

However, remember this saying. Recycling comes in 3rd place:
Reduce --- reuse -- recycle

Coca-Cola unveils innovative 'reverse vending machines' that could be game-changers for consumers: 'Set a precedent'

"We're enabling people to take simple yet meaningful steps."

www.yahoo.com

When I was a kid, you could buy pop (soda) in a glass bottle that had a bakelite screw topper with rubber seal. If you took the empty back, you got 2p back, it then rose to 5p. As kids, we went through the hedges etc.. to find discarded bottles because those extra pennies meant more sweets. These empties went back to factory, washed, refilled and sent back out.

 

[CrazyTrader55]

Just another boondoggle that sounds better on paper than in real life.

Tough crowd

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Just another boondoggle that sounds better on paper than in real life.

Maybe. Do you have the stats to support that?

 

[Independent thinker]

Tough crowd

If you really study on it, pretty much everything the left have come up with regarding the environment wasn't thought through well enough. People buy sodas out of machines and walk away, throwing their empty bottle into the trash can in a different area. They don't walk back to where they bought the soda from. Will some actually use these new vending machines? Sure. Just not enough to make them realistically worth it.

 

[leftwinger]

No. I want to keep filling barges and dump it in the Ocean. Says? Anyone?

No I dont have all the answers. up to at least the 90s’? ORE still paid you back $0.05 or something for bottle return to the store. Like the caveman mentioned. Cans too, try to empty them first genius.

This was big time theft or lying in the olden days for kids to learn to steal…uh yeah. I had those two six pack pepsi in the cart. It was known as rattling the bottle cart.

 

[Independent thinker]

Maybe. Do you have the stats to support that?

Of course not. They're just coming out. But, I have no doubt that I will be right a few years from now and these machines will no longer be around.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Tough crowd

If it doesn't fit into their narrow bias, it isn't real. They're Luddites.

 

[leftwinger]

In CA or other western states, they pick up your Blue recycle fillings…..in a secret other truck. But rumor is it often goes straight to the landfill. Cost reductions, no market for glass, overloaded on plastics on pallets……to hard to deal with. Sighing.

I said decades ago, America needs to cut down on packaging. No she does not need a thick paper bag with handles and colored filler paper for a pair of gloves at Nordstrom for the love of God!!! She has a purse or another bag in her fat hands!!! God help me!!

 

[CrazyTrader55]

If you really study on it, pretty much everything the left have come up with regarding the environment wasn't thought through well enough. People buy sodas out of machines and walk away, throwing their empty bottle into the trash can in a different area. They don't walk back to where they bought the soda from. Will some actually use these new vending machines? Sure. Just not enough to make them realistically worth it.

I'd rather see them go back to glass bottles.... but at least this is something.

 

[Independent thinker]

I'd rather see them go back to glass bottles.... but at least this is something.

It's nothing. Won't catch on.