Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above ...

New bulk-return machines allow shoppers to redeem an entire bag of bottles and cans at once. These more convenient machines are not widely available in Michigan due to their cost and the state's ...

The Collection Solutions business unit of Norway-based Tomra, a maker of reverse vending machines (RVMs) for bottles and cans, says it welcomes renewed interest in a deposit-return scheme (DRS) in ...

Truls Haug, managing director of Tomra collection solutions UK and Ireland, says DRS transitions countries to circular economy. Scandinavia, Norway, Canada and Scotland are embracing deposit return ...

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 ...