Read 2026-10-29
Reverse vending machine cost
One UK seller publishes a price: Store Fittings Direct lists a compact QUBE deposit return machine at £4,999.99 ex VAT. A maker's marketplace lists a small machine at €3,138.88. The other 22 of the 24 suppliers read on 2026-10-29 quote per site and publish nothing. Tell us what you need and Joseph Ellul will reply directly.
Source: UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source
- £4,999.99
- ex VAT, the one UK seller's published price (compact machine) Store Fittings Direct: compact deposit return machine (QUBE)
- 2 of 24
- suppliers read that publish a price at all UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source
- €3,138.88
- a small machine on a maker's marketplace, priced in euros Precious Plastic Bazar: reverse vending machine
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UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index
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Every provider below was read on its own page through our fetch box, and the row says what that page published on the day we read it. 2 of 24 publish a figure; the rest are listed too, because how many will not quote a number is the most useful thing about this market. Nothing here is a quote for your job: it is what other people advertise.
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 24 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 22 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in EUR (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 53 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the published purchase and lease figures across every RVM maker and reseller selling into the UK scheme, the share that publish versus quote, the machine's footprint and capacity class, and the payback against the scheme's handling fee and the £6,000 grant at a stated return volume
| Provider | Published figure | Read | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Precious Plastic Bazar: reverse vending machine | €3,138.88 | 2026-10-28 | Precious Plastic Bazar: reverse vending machine |
| Store Fittings Direct: compact deposit return machine (QUBE) | £4,999.99 | 2026-10-29 | Store Fittings Direct: compact deposit return machine (QUBE) |
| TOMRA: reverse vending machine price | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | TOMRA: reverse vending machine price |
| TOMRA reverse vending | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | TOMRA reverse vending |
| RVM Systems UK | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | RVM Systems UK (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| RVM Systems all products | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | RVM Systems all products |
| RVM Systems: can a small store use an RVM? | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | RVM Systems: can a small store use an RVM? |
| First Mile RVMs for retailers | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | First Mile RVMs for retailers |
| Envipco: UK DRS exemption criteria | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Envipco: UK DRS exemption criteria |
| Envipco | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Envipco (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page) |
| Sielaff | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Sielaff |
| Strongpoint UK reverse vending deployment | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Strongpoint UK reverse vending deployment |
| Retail Technology Show: Recyclever | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Retail Technology Show: Recyclever |
| Retail Technology Show: Recyclever RVM5-800 | publishes no price | 2026-10-28 | Retail Technology Show: Recyclever RVM5-800 |
- Store Fittings Direct lists a compact deposit return machine at £4,999.99 ex VAT (£5,999.99 inc VAT). (Store Fittings Direct: compact deposit return machine (QUBE))
- 2 of 24 providers read publish a price at all; 22 publish none. (UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source)
- A small machine sold on the Precious Plastic Bazar marketplace is listed at €3,138.88. (Precious Plastic Bazar: reverse vending machine)
Cite this page
“UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index”, Reverse vending machine cost, https://reversevendingmachinecost.co.uk/ (updated 2026-10-29). Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 24 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 22 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 2 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in EUR (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 53 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the published purchase and lease figures across every RVM maker and reseller selling into the UK scheme, the share that publish versus quote, the machine's footprint and capacity class, and the payback against the scheme's handling fee and the £6,000 grant at a stated return volume
The detail
Sourced, dated, kept current.
Who publishes a price, and who makes you ask
2 of 24 providers read for reverse vending machine cost publish a figure. These are the ones that do not.
Reverse vending machine cost in the UK, and the £6,000 grant
What a reverse vending machine costs a UK shop: the one published UK price, the £6,000 small retailer grant and how it is paid out.
Deposit return scheme exemptions: when a shop need not take returns
The grounds Exchange for Change accepts for a return point exemption under the UK deposit return scheme, and how long an exemption lasts.
Frequently asked
What does a reverse vending machine cost a UK shop to buy or lease, net of the grant and against the handling fee it earns, and who publishes a price?
Of 24 suppliers read on 2026-10-29, two publish a price: Store Fittings Direct lists a compact QUBE machine at £4,999.99 ex VAT, and a maker's marketplace lists a small machine at €3,138.88. The rest quote per site, so the table below shows every reading and who published it.(UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source)
How many providers publish a price at all?
2 of the 24 read, out of 26 named. The others answer with a quote form. They are listed in the table as publishing no price rather than dropped, because the share of a market that will not put a number on its own page is itself a finding.(UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source)
Where do these figures come from, and when were they read?
Each one is a sentence on the provider's own page, read on 2026-10-29 through our own fetch box and stored with the hash of the page's text, so the row can be checked against what was there that day. The row links to the page it came from.(UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source)
Is this a price for my job?
No. Each figure here is what a seller advertises on its own page for one machine, not a quote for your store. Capacity, installation and whether you buy or lease are what move it. This page is so you know what you are hearing when you are quoted.(UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index: every row, with its source)
Who answers an enquiry from this page?
Joseph Ellul, who runs this site and does this work. There is no lead panel behind the form: the enquiry is read by the company that would do the job, and your details are not passed on or resold to anyone.
Sources
This site's own datasets, every figure quoted from its source and dated:
- The UK DRS Return Point Rules carries 2 published figures read from 1 source's own page, from 3 to 7 year, read 28 October 2026.
- The median published figure in the UK Reverse Vending Machine Price Index is 3,138.88 EUR across 1 source's own page in EUR (range 3,138.88 to 3,138.88 EUR; 2 sources publish a figure), read 29 October 2026.
- TOMRA: reverse vending machine price
- TOMRA reverse vending
- RVM Systems UK (its own page, listed on this site's dataset page)
- RVM Systems all products
- RVM Systems: can a small store use an RVM?
- First Mile RVMs for retailers
- Store Fittings Direct: compact deposit return machine (QUBE)
- Envipco: UK DRS exemption criteria