Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A person feeding a plastic water bottle into a reverse vending machine. - frantic00/Shutterstock If you've been to the supermarket ...

Imagine walking into your local Costco with a bag full of plastic bottles and, minutes later, having enough money to get a couple of enormous pizzas from the food court. That's the reality behind a ...

If you live in one of the 10 U.S. states with a bottle deposit program, you’re probably familiar with the idea of feeding your empty plastic bottles or aluminum cans into a machine and getting a few ...