Churchgate station to accept used water bottles and pay for them

Indian Railways have come up with a novel method to keep railway stations free of discarded water bottles. If everything goes as per plans, used plastic water bottles on tracks may become a thing of the past because Western Railway will install bottle-crushing machines at 10 suburban stations. Churchgate is elected to be the first station that would have the first Swachh Bharat recycling machine - it will coincide with World Environment Day on June 5.
This has been reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 3 June 2016.

AS explained by the authorities, the machines can handle 5,000 bottles a day. There will be a pilot project which will be extended if the response is good. The stations selected by the Western Railway is based on footfalls. Long distance trains also operate from some of them.
The scheme in short is - users will get an instant reward when returning used containers. The machines will accept only bottles with authentic bar codes. Once the bottle is given for recycling, a printout will be issued and these coupons can be redeemed at outlets with which the machine-provider has tied up for discounts. The recycled bottles will be given to fibre-manufacturing companies for use in making clothes, carpets and grocery bags.
While wishing all the best to the idea, one can assume the long queue that will form at the outlet. People will rush helter-skelter to locate the outlet and hand over the used bottles to collect the reward coupon. Then they have to locate the place where the coupon can be redeemed which may be far away from where he lives!!! Wonder whether there will be many takers.


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