CHICAGO (CBS) -- A small Chicago business has a big idea—eliminate single-use plastic water bottles and cut emissions leading to climate change. Kadeya has developed a vending machine that dispenses a ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (7News) — Tuesday, 7News learned about an attempt to give D.C. residents money when they hand in plastic bottles. 7News went out on a boat on the Anacostia River to look at the ...

Reverse vending machine marketed in Asia by plastic recycler Max Craipeau is designed to accept, identify and shred PET plastic beverage containers. The Botol reverse vending machine has been designed ...

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 ...

Sure, the latest initiatives from the Teslas, Apples and Googles of the industry tend to dominate the tech news space — and with good reason. Still, the big guns aren’t the only ones bringing ...

Michigan's 10-cent beverage bottle and can deposit program was once the envy of the recycling nation, boasting a return rate above 95%. But in recent years it has slumped badly. The state shut down ...