21.0 Reverse Vending Machine found in Istanbul
Going back to the idea of mapping out the location of reverse vending machines, this is something that I really would like to implement into my project, as recently In Turkey, Istanbul, reverse vending machines have been installed in the metro stations, as where users of the metro can recycle plastic in order to top up their metro cards to travel. (Hürriyet Daily News, 2018) In the article it states " The newly installed machine is the first reverse vending machine ever to be installed in a metro station in Istanbul, but the project is expected to spread to other metro stations in the city soon. When a passerby inserts an empty plastic bottle, the machine’s sensor scans it to assess the size of the plastic: A 0.33 liter bottle will return 2 kuruş (one Turkish Lira is equal to 100 kuruş), a 0.5 liter bottle will return 3 kuruş, a 1 liter bottle will return 6 kuruş and a 1.5 liter bottle will return 9 kuruş." (Hürriyet Daily News, 2018) ARTICLE: http://www.hurr