Plastic bottles are one of the biggest sources of polution in the world, but a briliant inventor has created a brilliant solution to get rid of it: turn all the old plastic into iPhone cases.

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've been to the supermarket lately, you may have seen reverse vending machines stationed outside it. (Maybe they call them "bottle deposits" where you are.) It's a neat, convenient way to return ...

EASTON, Pa. — Students returning to Lafayette College will notice a new addition. A "reverse vending machine" aims to help the environment and make recycling fun. "It is the first of its kind in ...

Increasingly, it seems like it’s supporting expanding bottle deposit programs. But big beverage companies want any solution but that. Pepsi is now spending $10 million to seed a new program to help ...

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 ...

On 13 August, the European Commission registered a European Citizens’ Initiative to implement an EU-wide deposit system to recycle plastic bottles. Headed up by Citizen Service Belgium’s Anouk ...