Requirements of reverse vending machine (RVM)

  • Conforming to the European Union requirements for technical appliances (CE marking);
  • Connected to power supply;
  • Ensured Internet connectivity;
  • Installed by a supplier of RVMs;
  • Issues a deposit slip to the consumer/end user, stating the packaging categories of packagings entered and accepted by the consumer and the relevant deposit amounts, and the contact data of the retailer/collection station issuing the deposit slip to the consumer;
  • Has a front screen display that gives sufficient instructions to the consumer during the use of the RVM, incl. whether the packaging is accepted in the EPP system, and also other messages helping the consumer to use the RVM;
  • The personnel of the collection station is capable of emptying and restarting the return vending machine and has passed the relevant training;
  • The personnel servicing a press-enabled RVM knows what to do with plastic and metal packagings which were not directed into the press module of the RVM due to technical or other reasons. Such packagings must be deformed and added to other pressed packagings. NB! It’s forbidden to insert such packagings into the RVM again;
  • RVM is used only during the opening hours of the relevant sales outlet, i.e. the RVM may be started and used no more than five minutes before the opening of the sales outlet and must be stopped and must not be used more than ten minutes after the closing of the sales outlet;
  • Packagings must be sorted according to the material types (plastic packagings, metal packagings, glass packagings), depending on the RVM’s model;
  • If the RVM has a press, then the pressed packagings must be intact after pressing and must not be made into smaller pieces;
  • It must not be possible to restore any pressed packagings in a manner that would allow inserting them into the RVM again;
  • If the RVM has one or several presses, then the technological design of the RVM must preclude any physical access to the packagings, starting from entry into the RVM at the customer area and ending after finishing the pressing operation.