Ireland's first ever reverse vending machine is set to open in Co Monaghan.
It will be located inside the Market Square shopping centre in Carrickmacross and will have the capacity hold hundreds of bottles.
The machine will be used to recycle plastic bottles and users will be given a 10 cent voucher for every bottle they deposit in it.
The voucher can then be redeemed in a local supermarket.
And there's no fear of non-recyclable rubbish being inserted as the machine is programmed to only recognise barcodes of plastic bottles.
The scheme is being sponsored by Shabra plastics and Quinn Packaging and will operate for at least a year.
The plastics gathered by the machine will be processed and re-made into packaging locally, RTE reports.
Local Tidy Towns treasurer for Carickmacross Breda McGuigan told Newstalk Breakfast: "It will hold a couple of hundred bottles, depending on the size. We're going to empty it every day.
"For the first while, we'll be keeping a very close eye on it - to make sure it doesn't get full. We'll have somebody checking it... at least once or twice a day."
She added: "[The English manufacturer] has around 80,000 of these machines around the world, but this is the first one that will be operational in Ireland.
"We had to supply them with barcodes of all different types of plastic bottles that are on the market now in Ireland... they enter them into the computer system, so the machine already knows the size of a lot of bottles."
