PepsiCo's PET Recycling Machine in Shirdi ~

Food and beverages firm PepsiCo India has planned to install reverse vending machines to crush PET plastic bottles in all the 36 districts of Maharashtra over the next 2-years as part of its plastic waste management initiative. It aims to collect, segregate and recycle 6,500 tonnes of PET bottles in the state in the first year through this initiative.
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As part of the initiative, on Thursday 06th Sept`18, it installed reverse vending machines in Shirdi, and has tied up with Gem Enviro Management to install a total of 10 reverse vending machines and 20 manual machines in the city. Besides, it will also be setting up collection centres for the PET bottles. "We have started plastic waste management initiative from Shirdi because of the footfalls," said PepsiCo India vice-president Neelima Dwivedi.
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The reverse vending machines, indigenously developed by Gem Enviro Management, can each crush 600 bottles a day and each manual machines can crush 500 bottles a day, its director Sachin Sharma said. He added that the cost of manufacturing one machine is Rs.5 lakh.