Singapore - Instead of dispensing items, this vending machine accepts them.
Food and beverage company Fraser and Neave (F&N) paired up with NTUC FairPrice recently to launch its first reverse vending machine at Waterway Point.
It works by accepting used cans and bottles and uses "advanced technology to identify, sort and collect" the containers.
For every five used containers they recycle, users of the machine will be given a S$0.50 voucher to purchase F&N’s Ice Mountain water at FairPrice supermarkets.
The programme aims to offer a convenient and efficient means to recycle used cans and bottles for common population in Singapore with the help of machine. More reverse vending machines will soon be installed at Yew Tee Point and Bukit Merah Central’s FairPrice outlets.
"With the launch of this initiative, F&N reinforces our commitment to play our part in protecting the environment by ensuring that our packaging is environmentally friendly and to encourage and reward consumers to recycle the cans and bottles at their convenience when they go shopping for their groceries," said F&N’s general manager Jennifer See.
