Bizarro vending machine accepts plastic, glass and cans only

By Paul Smith

The vending machine. Nana’s chicken dinner and Flight Control aside, has man ever created anything as perfectly marvellous as a machine that gives us chocolate and crisps? Of course not.

But what fresh hell is this? It looks like a vending machine, but it’s not – it’s a reverse vending machine:

envirobank1 300x273 Bizarro vending machine accepts plastic, glass and cans only

The bizarro vending machine lets you stuff it full of recyclable products – plastic, glass and aluminum cans – in return for shopping vouchers. Made by Australian firm Envirobank, these branded contraptions are already been trialled in Oz.

[RedFerret]

Tags: green, recycling
Posted in News May 5th, 2009 | 7 Comments

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7 Responses to “Bizarro vending machine accepts plastic, glass and cans only”

Posted by Constantly Furious | May 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am

If I put in a baby, will it give me a voucher for 8 pints of Stella, 2 kebabs and a taxi back to her place?
Posted by Weiner | May 5th, 2009 at 10:54 am

OMG a recycling machine.

These have been around for years.
Posted by Ruzzz | May 5th, 2009 at 10:55 am

The Tescos by Twickenham Rugby ground has a machine like this. it gives clubcard points in reutrn for you recycling glass, plastic etc
Posted by b. oring | May 5th, 2009 at 11:23 am

these have been around for about 10 years in germany

well done australia for stealing an old idea

if fact aren’t all australians decendants of thieves

aren’t genetics greats. the stealing gene gets passed to the next generation. also australians are probably all gey.
Posted by Sizzle Stefan | May 5th, 2009 at 1:33 pm

Yeah, there’s one of these at the Tesco in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, too. The amount of clubcard points you get is ridiculously low though, it’s nt even worth putting your card in. But it helps keep our wheelie bin not so full, which is nice.

They get all grimy though from all the bits of drink and food that get splattered about them. Pretty gross.
Posted by dude | May 5th, 2009 at 10:47 pm

They are a great idea, most large German supermarkets have them and have done for years… They print you out a voucher for money off your shopping based on how much you recycle. Mind you they still have a lot of glass bottles, which get reused a lot, so in turn there is a lot to recycle and a lot easier than plastic!

So well done Australia for ‘trialling them’.
Posted by j | May 6th, 2009 at 4:40 pm

A couple spent three months collecting and recycling litter to pay for their honeymoon flights.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7654254.stm