When you toss your newspaper, or plastic bottle or aluminum can in a mixed recycling bin, someone, somewhere, has to sort the material out so it can be turned into something new. The sorting is an ...

Olyns’ reverse vending machine promotes advertisers while giving rewards to consumers who recycle beverage containers. The Olyns Cube features a 65-inch screen that displays full-motion videos from ...

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 ...

Getting into the recycling business with plastic bottles makes you money and keeps the most-used recyclable resource in the country from ending up in your area landfill, such as a Santa Monica trash ...

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 ...

Plastic is a remarkable material in many ways. Cheap, durable, and versatile, it is responsible for a large percentage of the modern world we live in. As we all know, though, it’s not without its ...