Machine Reverse Vending
A reverse vending machine is a device that accepts used (empty) beverage containers and returns money to the user (the reverse of the typical vending cycle). The machines are popular in places that have mandatory recycling laws or container deposit legislation.In some places, bottlers paid funds into a centralized pool to be dispersed to people who recycled the containers. Any excess funds were to be used for general environmental cleanup. In other places, such as Norway, the state mandated that a vendor pay for recycled bottles, but left the system in the hands of private industry.
The mains vendors of reverse vending machines are Tomra of Norway and Wincor Nixdorf of Germany, while there is also some competition from smaller companies such as Envipco and Repant.
Operation
The recycler places the empty bottle/can into the receiving aperture; the horizontal in-feed system allows the user to insert containers one at a time. (An alternative system, found in many older machines, is one in which the user opens a door by hand and places the empty container in a pan. When the door is released and closed, the process continues.) The bottle/can is then automatically rotated; the bottle/can is then scanned by an OnmiDirectional UPC Scanner, which scans the beverage container's UPC code.
Once a container is scanned, identified (matched to database) and determined to be a participating container, it is processed and typically crushed (for one-time-use Containers) to reduce its size, to avoid spillages of liquid and to increase storage capacity. Refilliabele are collected and sorted into the right case by man to be brought back to botteling company. The machines can use material recognition instead of/as well as a bar code scanner when needed.
References
- ^ Bottle Bill Resource Guide
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