Beijing's vast army of plastic-bottle scavengers will get an automated rival later this month, when the city introduces its first reverse vending machines that pay subway credits in exchange for returned
More than 100 recycle-to-ride devices will be installed. Donors will receive between 5 fen and 1 mao on their commuter passes for each polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle they insert into the machine.
"It will be as easy to use as an ATM," said an employee of the operating company, Incom. "We hope to put one at every station on the route [subway line 10] and later expand to other lines, bus stops and residential areas."
(China.org.cn July 5, 2012)
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