Thank you for sharing your commitment to sustainability and how you’re using Google Maps to make a difference. The discovery of the plastic waste solution at Prayagraj Junction is especially inspiring. Small actions, like updating recycling attributes, truly add up!
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Thank you @NareshDarji for paying attention to this post and your kind words of appreciation.
We can do a bit and together that will take a bigger shape that’s the objective.
hello @Kumaarsantosh
Here is the most recent glass bottle painting.
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Wow!!! This is wonderful glass bottle painting. Thanks for sharing @SayliWalve.
I am sure others will get some inspiration from here. This has two way benefits. Beautification and Environmental friendly to contribute to RRR.
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Thank you so much @Kumaarsantosh
I’m glad you liked it.
Hope it inspires more people to try their hand at upcycling♻️
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Very informative post with contextual photos…
Appreciate your dedication…
I’m also new to Reverse Vending Machine…
But, very promising…if properly implemented.
Thank you, dear friend
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Awesome!! I’ve never seen anything like this. Thanks for highlighting the concept.
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Hello @tony_b and @Kumaarsantosh in Germany by law, we have to pay an additional deposit for recycling whenever buying bottles (glass or plastic). If I remember correctly, this exists more than 15 years now. Recently they increased the number of product types, aslo including containers for dairy producte. I believe, the only exception is wine bottles now.
The stores must take back the empty bottles, if they sell similar products. Therefore most of the stores have those RVMs (never heard the term before, though) to pay back the deposit.
Meanwhile, there are many people searching trash bins for those bottles to create an additional revenue.
Since two or three years, we also see (and use) those machines in Italy, but there is no deposit system. Some of those machines require to use a smartphone app (which can only be installed by Italians 
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Absolutely. Proper implementation and on going maintenance are the key for its better use.
Thank you so much dear friend @TravellerG for your appreciative comments.
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True…I have also seen this only at a very few places in our Country. May be this will pick up soon with all our contributions and awareness.
Thanks for sharing your views @tony_b.
This is a good check right at the source itself. I must appreciate this proactive approach for recycling.
Happy to know that such practice is already in existence in your country.
Good problem to have though.
Thank you so much @WilfriedB for providing such details about how Recycling is been taken care of in your country. Such awareness is very important for all of us to save our Mother Planet - ‘The Earth’.
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Talking about those machines in Italy, I did mention it in an review for a supermarket two years ago.
@Annaelisa also mentioned that here.
I have a little differentiated opinion on this:
While I already appreciate those people can earn a little money and some communities even place special trash-bins close to those machines for customers who want to donate the deposits to others, it also sheds a not so good light on our society.
While this deposit-system was introduced to reduce plastic and glass trash, there many people, wealthy enough to say “who cares about those few cents …”, continuing to trash the bottles just anywhere …
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You are most welcome, dear friend
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Same in my country, but no RVM machine. There’s just a shed around the back of every supermarket where we can take the bottles and have them counted to calculate the refund. In our household, we save them up and take them back once every few months. But I do have a few friends who think its too much trouble, and they just throw theirs in the trash.
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Hi @Kumaarsantosh,
More and more of these “reverse vending machines” are popping up in my area as well, and I’m so happy to see that they’ve been spreading across the world, even in unexpected places!
As for your suggestion to have a Sustainability tag on Connect, we actually have it for meet-ups. But I will bring this up to our team; in the meantime, please also share your idea via the feedback form. It’s a super quick way to let us know how we can improve Connect, and the responses are constantly monitored! Thank you. 
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Thank you @DeniGu for echoing the existence and usage of Reverse Vending Machine globally. This is one of the good steps towards conserving environment.
I have not come across the Sustainability tag on Connect for meet-up, I might have missed to notice though.
Thank you for taking up this idea to include Sustainability tag on Connect with the team. I have also shared this idea to include Sustainability tag on Connect through the feedback form.
Thank you for sharing it @Kumaarsantosh I’ve seen a similar machine at Varanasi railway station, but it’s not installed in a prominent location.
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Thank you @K.K.Sharma for sharing this info. Do you have any photo?
Yes - the implementation is a bit challenging it seems but we need to create more and more awareness in our own capacity so that the implementation will take place appropriately with the right usage as well.
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I will search and post here after editing this reply and tagging you
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That would be great. Thank you.
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